Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi there, This is a probably stupid question, but I never checked what strategy yum uses. If I do "yum install firefox" on a freshly installed F19 system, and the initial version of FIrefox on F19 (the one shipped on the LiveCD) is, say, 21.0, but the latest update on the repos is, say, Firefox 2

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-04 Thread Martin S
On Thursday, September 05, 2013 01:08:50 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: Hi there, This is a probably stupid question, but I never checked what strategy yum uses. If I do "yum install firefox" on a freshly installed F19 system, and the initial version of FIrefox on F19 (the one shipped on the Liv

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S wrote: > > Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it would > report 21.0 already installed. And find nothing to do. > Suppose we're talking about a package which is not part of the base install. Or that we're talking about Fedor

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-04 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 09/05/2013 11:01 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S > wrote: > > > Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it > would report 21.0 already installed. And find nothing to do. > > > Suppose we'

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > Yum would always default to installing the highest version available, > unless you provide the specific version number at the command. > Thanks Rejy! FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Dur

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/04/2013 10:31 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Suppose we're talking about a package which is not part of the base install. Or that we're talking about Fedora XFCE whose default browser is not Firefox :) AFAIK it installs the most recent version. Why would you expect it to do anything else?

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > AFAIK it installs the most recent version. Why would you expect it to do > anything else? I somehow got the mistaken idea that "yum install" installed the base package from /os/packages and yum update retrieved stuff from /updates/ on the mirro

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-04 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 09/05/2013 12:09 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Joe Zeff > wrote: > > AFAIK it installs the most recent version. Why would you expect it > to do anything else? > > > I somehow got the mistaken idea that "yum install" installed t

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-05 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/05/2013 08:39 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Joe Zeff mailto:j...@zeff.us>> > wrote: > > AFAIK it installs the most recent version. Why would you expect it to do > anything else? > > > I somehow got the mistaken idea that "yum install" installed the

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > In fact, yum does not have an idea about what is a base package and what > is an update, > it just looks at all the configured repos and selects the newest version. > On the other hand, if you tell yum "--disable-repo=updates", the updates

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > irrelevant, Not irrelevant, I was responding to Martin's comment that said "as it would report 21.0 already installed". I wanted for Martin to understand I asked for the default behavior, regardless of whether a given package was already in

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.09.2013 07:31, schrieb Fernando Cassia: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S > wrote: > > > Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it > would report 21.0 already installed. And > find nothing to do. > > Suppose we're t

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > In fact that paragraph should go quoted verbatim to the yum man page, if > man pages were actually manual (documentation) pages instead of pages long > description of switches/options rarely with any useful real-world usage > case exa

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-06 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:31:16AM -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S wrote: > > > > > Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it would > > report 21.0 already installed. And find nothing to do. > > > > Suppose we're talking about a

Re: Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

2013-09-07 Thread Martin S
On Thursday, September 05, 2013 05:45:49 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: irrelevant, Not irrelevant, I was responding to Martin's comment that said "as it would report 21.0 already installed". I wanted for Martin to understand I asked fo