Update Dependancies broken for the past few days.

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Mon Sep 23 01:22:01 UTC 2013


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Dan Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
> ok, so update is a depreciated alias, so upgrade it is!

Back in the day `yum upgrade` was the equivalent of `yum update --obsoletes`,
which means that if a package has been renamed or replaced, you'd get the new
version, whereas a plain `yum update` would not replace those packages.

This was rather confusing, and approximately nobody doesn't want Obsoletes to
work when updating, so they were later unified to follow the `yum upgrade`
behavior, but the `yum update` syntax was kept since that was burned into many
peoples' skulls.

dnf is intended to replace yum, and one day in the not too distant future people
will be running `yum update` and be none the wiser that it is actually what we
now call dnf doing the work.  So dnf must inherit all yum's little weird
oddities, which means `(yum|dnf) upgrade` and `(yum|dnf) update` will probably
do the same thing until on or about the heat death of the universe.

So, there's no need to change your muscle memory if you don't want to. ;-)

-T.C.


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