Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
On: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:01 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote > > I can't answer your question, but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple > yum > update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document? > Since I was unaware that CentOS-5.4 was released I had no reason to look for such a document. I am a digest subscriber and the release announcement is contained in the very digest that contains your message. Therefore the answer is no. My question is: Given the knowledge I possessed, why would I have gone looking for such a document? Is every yum user expected to look for release notes before each and every time that they run yum update? On the other hand, because of yum's apparent inability to clean up after itself, I had previously adopted the practice of running yum clean all before and after every update, which I did do in this case. There is a fundamental problem with the software if an automated package manager like yum requires both prior external knowledge and manual intervention to effect a particular update. Surely if a yum update set contains package dependencies that are sensitive to installation order then there should be an automated means to insure that the requisite packages are installed in the proper order by the package manager itself and not depend on manual intervention. The current arrangement seems to lend itself to unfortunate results. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Where is this document? > ... > > There's a link to it on the > front page of http://www.centos.org/ > The link was also included in the announcements that 5.4 was ready. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >> but out of curiosity, did you just do a >> simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes >> document? > > Where is this document? > > Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine. On the centos.org homepage there are two links to release announcements. The "Distro Release Announcement" link says all you need to do is run "yum update". The "Release Notes: CentOS" link recommends updating glibc, yum, rpm, and python first. I did need to run "yum update yum" before the full update would succeed. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Where is this document? ... There's a link to it on the front page of http://www.centos.org/ Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25 Email: m...@crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
Les Mikesell wrote: > but out of curiosity, did you just do a > simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes > document? Where is this document? Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
James B. Byrne wrote: > On Thu, October 22, 2009 15:34, James B. Byrne wrote: >> hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo >> >> I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was >> not satisfactory. >> > ... >> I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first >> I would like to get the default to display. Are there any ideas on >> how to proceed? >> > > On a hunch I did a 'yum list gno\* | more' and discovered that > gnome-session was not installed. Installing gnome-session, as you > may imagine, solved the problem of the missing desktops. > > Now the question is: how it is that an update can remove the > gnome-session package without first installing its replacement, if > indeed gnome-session was part of the update at all? I can't answer your question, but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
