On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 02:04:48PM -0500, s-luppescu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 15-Oct-2001 Nathan Straz wrote:
> > 1. Download the new distro or get the new CDs
> > 2. rpm --freshen -vh /path/to/redhat/7.2/RPMS/*
> >
> > I haven't needed to upgrade a RedHat system in quite some time (I'm a
> > Debian user), so I don't know if this really works. In theory, it
> > should. As always, backup your system before performing any upgrades.
>
> The problem with this is that the distribution now comes on 2 CDs, so
> you have to copy all the RPMs from both CDs into a spare directory and
> do the upgrade from there. If you don't have a spare piece of 1.2 GB
> disk space to do this in, you get into all kinds of ugly dependency
> problems.
No one ever said that upgrading a RedHat system was easy or convenient.
Did I mention I was a Debian user?
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