On 4/4/06, O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'YUM' is unable to remember and keep track as to what to remove > and then install first and next so as not to break the services that are > required. YUM as I understand it is not designed to do major > upgrades only upgrades within the same versions. >
A lot of the development that's been done on Yum in the last year has aimed to improve on this lack of extensibility and somewhat braindead upgrade behaviour. All package managment done in the installation phase of FC5 is now done with yum, and it's to intended that Yum will have enough smarts to straight out upgrade to the next core release instead of having to upgrade off a CD. The next release of Yum in the Fedora installer should also have support for user-definable repositories such as Fedora Extras, as well as repositories from other distributions that use the same metadata backend. This should start making rolling your own Red Hat based distributions a whole lot easier. Lindsay -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
