From: Randall Parker 

Tim Boyer wrote:

> Huge new changes in the software.  You're the asking the equivalent of 'Why
> doesn't Windows just upgrade IE, OE, the TCP stack, and the gui
incrementally,
> rather than going from 2K to XP'?

Well, a lot of time went by between 2K and XP. We are talking 7 months from
FC5 to FC6.


> For instance, Fedora Core 6 includes Xen with it, which took a bunch of
kernel
> work to accomplish.  BTW, virtualization works _great_.

Virtualization as in virtual machines? What are you using it for?

>
>> I also wonder if I download, say, KDE from the main KDE web site and
>> then to yum update if KDE will get revved from the main web site or from
>>  the Fedora web site (or one of its mirrors) since I installed on top
>> of Fedora Core?
>>
>
> With up2date (the RHEL equivalent of yum), you'll get something like
> 'Configuration file has been changed.  Not updated'.

What does that mean? That up2date only takes updates off the RH site and
therefore if it finds an entry no longer points to that site as a source of
updates for that app it won't update it even from the site where it now
points?

I'm thinking that yum must just go where each entry says to go look for the
updates for that entry.

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