Fedora core 3 and apt-get

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Page wrote:

> Here is the short version of what's up.  I have a work computer with a
> fast internet connection running FC3.  I have a home computer with a
> POKEY-slow internet connection running FC2.  I thought that it would
> be great if I could copy the /var/cache/apt directory and the /etc/apt
> directory to my home computer, I could run apt-get dist-upgrade and
> Voila! my home computer would be upgraded to FC3.  Well...  it ALMOST
> worked...  Problem is, when I run apt-get dist-upgrade, it says that
> there are no update, no changes what-so-ever that it can make.

Why not just get FC3 CDs and do the upgrade? How can you be sure that
your 'apt' cache has all the pacakges that are reqired for an FC2->FC3
upgrade?

Satish