Re: [tlug] RedHat up2date funnies

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

[Matt Doughty (Re: [tlug] RedHat up2date funnies) writes:]
>> 
>> > Perhaps I'm building up for a 7.3 upgrade.....
>> 
>> Is that the sound of a bag of pain being opened that I hear?  

Well, it's never painless, but I am not fazed by the thought. The main
hassle is re- installing all the non-standard tarballs and rpms I have.

>> I certainly
>> hope that the "upgrade" procedure has improved. Unless of course you mean
>> a clean install when you say "upgrade". ;) 

To be frank the only upgrade I did was 5.0 to 5.2 some years back. It
was pretty good, apart from the bloat factor. Here I have about 6Gb
spare on /, so I expect even RH won't need all that.

Jim

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