coreutils is installed, cannot su -, and cannot add user still running as root

[Rahul Sundaram]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:49 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 17:17:41 +0100,
>>   Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 07/04/2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A suggestion (not able to try myself as I no longer have an F7 machine
>>> to try) is, make sure you use "upgrade" rather than "update" as the
>>> yum command. I usually attempt to upgrade yum first when doing this
>>> sort of thing, but that will probably pull in updates to python and
>>> various libraries anyway, and before you know it you'll be upgrading
>>> half the system anyway :o)).
>> If you set obsoletes=1 flag in /etc/yum.conf you will always get that
>> (upgrade versus update) behavior. I have heard the claim that that flag is set
>> by default with Fedora installs, but I am not sure if that is true or when it
>> might have become true.
>> You probably always want that behavior because even updates within a major
>> version can obsolete things.
> 
> yes, obsoletes=1  has been the default in the code for a
> looooooooooooong time.

Why not just drop the "upgrade" alias then? It probably is just adding 
up to the confusion.

Rahul