Apt-get
Samuel Flory
sflory at rackable.com
Thu Jul 24 19:12:34 UTC 2003
Panu Matilainen wrote:
>Quoting Roberto Berto' <roberto at desenvolve.com.br>:
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>>Do some one knows how I can configure apt-get to update redhat 9 to the
>>beta one?
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>Add pointer to apt-enabled severn-repository to /etc/apt/sources.list, at least
>Fedora has one:
>"rpm http://download.fedora.us/fedora redhat/9.0.93/i386 os updates stable"
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>..and then run dist-upgrade. Beware, you're stepping to largely untested grounds
>here, I don't recall seeing success/failure reports of the process. Chances are
>it works just fine but you never know until you try - trying it out on a
>crash-test-dummy box first is heavily recommended.
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This seems to be working. You may want to add a few of the new
packages. It does take a while. It was the easiest way to upgrade my
laptop which runs reiserfs. Now I've got something that will really
blow my debian's friends minds. A live upgrade of Red Hat from the network.
--
Once you have their hardware. Never give it back.
(The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory <sflory at rackable.com>
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