Re: Install/Upgrade diy...

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 13:46 +1300, Morgan Read wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> My issue no doubt relates to my methodology...
> 
> I've just moved from f8 to f10.  Figured that I'd take a list of all
> my installed RPMs and update to my that list once I'd installed f10 to
> return to my previous state - more or less.
> 
> man yum says for yum update "... If no package matches the given
> package name(s), they are assumed to be a shell glob and any matches
> are then installed." 


This is a documentation error and I'll fix it now.

If you say:

yum update foo

and you don't have foo installed and foo doesn't obsolete anything you
have installed then foo will NOT be installed. This allows a user to
run: yum update x* and not accidentally get an arseload of -devel pkgs
installed or whatnot.


-sv