Using apt dist-upgrade

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 21:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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> >On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 19:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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> >>Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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> >>>On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 19:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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> >>>>Mark Haney wrote:
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> >>>He just has released a new release, a couple of weeks ago.
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> >>I had that impression through previous discussions related to it in 
> >>Fedora devel list and the fact the issues like multilib is/was there for 
> >>a long time
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> >Yes, apt still is not able to handle RH multilibs.
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> I dont think multi libs is specific to RH. can you clarify that 
> specifically?
As I have been told, apt is able to handle Debian and SuSE multilibs.
Unfortunately, I don't know where the actual difference between these
distros' and RH/FC's multilibs are.

> >Well, 95% of the issues wrt. upgrading RHL/FC are packaging bugs. These
> >affect all upgrading tools, such as up2date, apt, yum, smart and
> >anaconda.
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> well if you know of specific issues you could file them against specific 
> packages
Rest assured, I've done so many times before and will do so when
encountering them ;-)

> >Don't get me wrong, IMO, yum is gradually improving and has evolved to
> >acceptable shape as far as "keeping systems up2date" is concerned, but
> >it is still at least one magnitude behind apt elsewhere.
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> It would be fair to allow a chance for the yum developers to respond to 
> these issues. So a post to the fedora devel or yum lists would be 
> appropriate
Seth knows about them ;-)

Ralf