the proper way to 'yum update' a new 'everything' install of FC4?

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 26 18:46:01 UTC 2005


Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
> Umm, you apparently haven't done package management and configuration
> management before.

Oh?

> Nothing I wrote precludes release of a kernel update.

Yes, it does.  You don't want it to go into the updates repo until the
out-of-tree modules are ready.

> It
> just causes one to have to think about what packages it goes into. One
> wouldn't put the new kernel into the "everything" package until all
> support is available. It might go into other packages, though.

"Everything" is not a package, it is an install option.  Once installed
you pull updates from the same update repo regardless of what install
option you used.

-- 
William Hooper




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