John Hinton wrote: > I'm wondering about yum update vs. yum upgrade. The man page says use > upgrade (actually the obsoletes flag which is set in upgrade and not > update) when doing something like a linux 8.0 to linux 9 upgrade. > Something we can't do with CentOS, i.e. 3 to 4. So, is it better to use > update or upgrade when going from 4.3 to 4.4? Doesn't RedHat call these > "Quarterly Updates" and not "Quarterly Upgrades"? on yum-2.4.x the --obsoletes flag is enabled by default anyway, so in effect what you get from update or from upgrade is about the same thing. > And, it seems that the folks having trouble were doing yum upgrade. I'm > wondering if anyone is experiencing the same difficulties when doing yum > update? look at the thread again, its only when someone does an update for only sqlite that they have an issue, a 'yum update yum; yum update' has worked fine for me > Could this be what's causing the conflicts with sqlite? no. > And if update vs. upgrade doesn't make any difference (from my first > question).. Has a 'clear' direction for painless updating emerged? yes : yum update yum sqlite python-sqlite ; yum update -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq