yum upgrade v anaconda upgrade differences

[David Timms]

On 18/05/09 09:47, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sunday, May 17 2009, Seth Vidal said:
>> anaconda is also running outside of the system you're trying to update -
>> it doesn't have to worry about making its own environment entirely
>> unusable. So it can do things like --nodeps w/o a concern for not being
>> able to complete the transaction.
>
> It also means that we can do things like use a newer version of rpm or a
> new kernel with ext4 support to (eventually) allow for migrating from
> ext3->ext4
OK, thanks Seth and Jeremy for that insight.

Cheers,

DaveT.