what has 'yum update' done?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 09.07.2013 02:46, schrieb lee:
>> well, here you have to make a choice as often in life
>>
>> * learn to deal with "the networking part is extremely difficult"
>> * take money in your hand and avoid this part
> 
> None of these would solve the problem because I cannot clone my system.
> None of these are worthwhile because I don't really have use for a VM.

i explained you taht oyu do *not* need to *clone* the system because
it is enough to clone *your* personal configuration

if you still think you have no need for a VM and so having a testing
environment nobody can help you

>> in the 1990's i had only one computer, no job and no internet at all
>>
>> [...]
>> that's why sometimes for me the FUD some spoiled people about how
>> difficult all the things today are ridiculous
> 
> Guess what, things back then were a lot easier than they are now.  Hard-
> and software have become much more complicated.

not in reality
not in case of a linux system

software become not more complicated
it became in many parts too simplified

> Then look at this thread:  There hasn't really been any answer to any of
> the questions

because nobody and *nothing* started and starts magically
a dist-upgrade without making some major mistake

this is simply not true - period

>> so I've been running 'yum update' today and when I wanted to reboot, I
>> found that grub now has an entry to boot some vmlinuz-fedup instead of a
>> normal kernel, and that even as default
>>
>> The vmlinuz-fedup isn't bootable --- apparently it tries to start some
>> sort of rescue mode and then says it can't start a basic.system because
>> that must not be called directly.  The entry to boot a normal kernel is
>> now hidden in a sub-menu
>>
>> What kind of crap is that?  I didn't want to upgrade to F19 yet!  And
>> does it mean that there again will be problems with updating when I try
>> to move to F19?

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