No FC2 updates anymore in all repo's?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri May 27 13:43:23 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:15 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> RedHat Linux distributions have always been designed to be upgradeable;
> right from the outset the RPM package manager had as one of its design
> goals the ability to easily upgrade everything. The "official" way of
> upgrading though is to use the anaconda installer on the CDs/DVD to do
> the upgrade. This is the way least likely to result in problems.
> Upgrading via yum/apt may also work, yum will not work without major effort.
> but YMMV; anaconda is coded with
> knowledge of things that need to be done (e.g. on FC4 it will remove the
> i386 version of perl on x86_64 installs), information that isn't
> available to yum or apt.
Well, that's what I call broked design.
Ralf
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