Looking Ahead - Upgrade

[Sam Varshavchik]

Rick Stevens writes:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Rick Stevens writes:
>> 
>>> The fact you've had good luck in upgrades is (to be honest) a bit
>>> anecdotal.  There have been many, MANY people with completely stock
>>> systems that have crashed and burned BIG time.  Even Red Hat doesn't
>>> recommend an upgrade more than 2 revs up (e.g. F7-->F9).
>> 
>> Well, I gues I've been lucky then, upgrading from one release to 
>> another, for 13+ years, with multiple machines containing wide varities 
>> of hardware.
> 
> Yes, you have.  And this wasn't meant to start a flame war.  All I'm
> saying is that yes, it sometimes works (perhaps more often than not),
> but sometimes it ends up as a smoking hole in the ground.  Be careful.

Well, I've been hearing all these warnings how rpm is the tool of devil, and 
how manually compiling stuff is the wave of the future, for many years. The 
funny thing is that most of them, who keep complaining about upgrades 
breaking their systems, are the ones who've loaded it with tons of 
manually-installed stuff.

Of course, the dependencies of manually-installed software do not get 
tracked by rpm, and rpm knows nothing about it. And they act surprised each 
time they upgrade and rpm ends up nuking their files.


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