Re: [tlug] Redhat 8.0

[Nguyen Vu Hung <vuhung@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> 
> 
> On 9/24/2002, "n" <yeehi@example.com> wrote:
> 
> >When it does come out, will I be able to just use update agent to get
> the
> >slick new 8.0 or will I have to burn new cds?
> 
> You'll need to do an upgrade install.  Debian will late you upgrade a
> distro with just one command, thanks to the great Debian packaging system. 
> That doesn't work on straight RPM systems, and I don't know if it would
> work on ones that use urpmi (such as Mandrake) or not.  I doubt it, but if
> I'm wrong, somebody please speak up.
> 

upgrading a rpm-based system is really a nightmare. Using up2date does not
work smoothly and we will have to upgrade what we want one by one using 

rpm -U

or 

rpm -F

manually ;)

Vu Hung
 
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