Yum upgrade vs preupgrade - readahead etc

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 10:04 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> After yum upgrading my way to F10 from F9, the experience as already
> reported was pretty painless. The only problem is that some packages,
> key to Fedora 10 features, do not get picked up with the update. e.g.
> readahead, and grub doesn't seem to have been updated either.
> 
> A few questions:
> 
> * Would the same problem occur if I'd used preupgrade?

The bootloader gets reinstalled on upgrade (via preupgrade or just a
usual anaconda upgrade).  New packages, though, don't get pulled in
because it's too hard to tell _which_ new packages someone might want.
And even more the case with something like readahead which existed in
the past.

Jeremy