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

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 22:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.

mostly compatibility and laziness.

-sv