Yum upgrade vs preupgrade - readahead etc

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Sun Oct 19 16:53:55 UTC 2008


On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Jonathan Roberts wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After yum upgrading my way to F10 from F9, the experience as already
> reported was pretty painless. The only problem is that some packages,
> key to Fedora 10 features, do not get picked up with the update. e.g.
> readahead, and grub doesn't seem to have been updated either.
>
> A few questions:
>
> * Would the same problem occur if I'd used preupgrade?

Preupgrade is more or less the same process as, anaconda update. Therefore 
I think this depends on anaconda..

> * How can identify missing packages/settings and add them to my
> current Fedora installation?
> * Should this be considered a bug?

I do not think so. If you are updating via yum, this is absolutly correct 
result.

>
> Kindly,
>
> Jon


Adam Pribyl




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