[SGVLUG] Swap labels

Dustin laurence at alice.caltech.edu
Mon Sep 19 14:06:44 PDT 2005


On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Mike Dillon wrote:

> My machine is running "Fedora Core 4", but I had upgraded from FC3 (not
> a fresh install).

Hmm.  Generally I hear users of RPM-based distros preferring to re-install
rather than upgrade, and I wonder if this is an example of why.

> from updates-released was util-linux-2.12p-9.11. Unfortunately, either
> yum OR RPM did not think that "2.12p-9.11" was newer than "2.12pre-3",

Interesting.  I thought it was an old feature I'd just missed, but sounds 
like a fairly new feature.

Dustin



More information about the SGVLUG mailing list