preupgrade F10
Gerry Reno
greno at verizon.net
Fri Mar 20 17:27:53 UTC 2009
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:03 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>
>> The need to make sure that you update rpm or yum before you do 'yum
>> update' has happened before and I'm sure this isn't the last time that
>> it will happen either. It just makes sense for a packager to see if
>> there is an update to itself first. Update itself and THEN do the
>> updates for everything else.
>>
>
> That's your opinion. The opinion of the people writing the update tools
> and preparing the repos and living through such "needs" and really
> understanding what is actually going on don't share that opinion.
>
>
What is the matter with yum doing something like this?
if updated yum or updated rpm is available:
if updated yum is available:
update yum
yum_is_new = true
if updated rpm is available:
update rpm
if yum_is_new:
sys.execv("/usr/bin/yum", sys.argv) # replace current process
with updated yum
Regards,
Gerry
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