yum updating itself first?

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 19:11:08 UTC 2007


On Dec 7, 2007 10:07 AM, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
> We've probably talked about this before but.. how hard would it be to
> change yum to update itself (and its deps) before attempting the rest of
> the transaction, for simple updates?
>
> There've been a lot of bugs lately where "update yum before updating
> everything else" was the solution. Seems like that would be the Right
> Thing To Do in general.

If you are going to go down this road... do you want to go further and
have yum look for a yum update no matter what the specified
install/update transaction is?

-jef




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