what has 'yum update' done?

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Sun Jul 14 01:24:54 UTC 2013


Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:

> Am 13.07.2013 17:50, schrieb Matthew Miller:
>> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 03:34:18PM +0200, lee wrote:
>>> The package management tools in Debian send you emails about changes
>>> like that, even about very little changes, when packages are being
>>> replaced by more recent versions.  Maybe this could be done in Fedora as
>>> well?
>> 
>> You could try using yum-cron
>
> what he menat was showing the difference between
> present and new config file before updates and the
> option to merge them - not that the merge is useful
> in many cases but *that* is was Debian offers

Yes, that too --- you get a choice to either use the new version or to
leave the old one, and you can view the differences before deciding.  In
any case, you do know that there's something you need to look into.


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