Fedora core 3 and apt-get

[Satish Balay]

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