Fedora core 3 and apt-get

[Matthew Page]

Is there a way of taking all of the RPM's that I have and using them
with Yum?  I've never used Yum before...


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:34:25 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Page wrote:
> 
> > Make that, my work computer started at the base FC2 install from the
> > CDs, same as my home computer.
> 
> > > > > 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.
> 
> Don't know how apt does the depsolve - but yum uses the 'rpm' database
> to do the depencency resolution - so it should do what you want.
> 
> Usual caveats [of not using the CD installer for upgrade] apply
> 
> Satish
> 
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