[Fwd: Re: apt-get, rpm y yum]

Maurice F. Piller piller at visi.net
Thu Nov 20 22:40:15 UTC 2003


I also trashed one of my three RH9 systems while updating glibc.  I don't know
what happened exactly but I ended up using Knoppix on that system for a couple
of weeks while I waited for Fedora to be released.
--Maurice

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:47:36PM +0300, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> I often heard word "smart" about up2date. The example from reality: In 
> RH9 up2date downloaded new packages and offer KDE user to update system. 
> User answers - yes. After update system can't work and can't boot. I 
> don't know exactly what happened, but up2date tried to update glibc and 
> hanged on this - and this is normal because libc is used everywhere. Why 
> up2date is "smart" if it is so stupid to update glibc while KDE and a 
> lot of other applications are running?

 





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