Choosing an approach to Fedora upgrades.

Beartooth beartooth at adelphia.net
Wed Sep 29 14:15:21 UTC 2004


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:51:55 -0700, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:

> One up2date option of great value is:
> 
>     up2date  --show-orphans
> 
> The only orphans you want are 'special' packages that 
> you know, love and understand.

Most of this is way over my head, alas. I did hit that command once
before, and got screensful of stuff -- but didn't and don't have any idea
what to do about it. Go through them doing "rpm -e whatever"??

-- 
Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux
Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!






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