On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 10:59, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:56:55PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > So people using XFS and RedHat in production will have to stay with 7.3
> > unless
> > SGI guys sacrifice their time again (for my personal benefit, I admit that I
> > hope they will). :(
>
> Well, not really... There is more than one way to upgrade your
> installation. I personally copy all of the RPMs into a single directory,
> remove the ones I know I don't want to install (I have a personal
> version, etc,) then start going through "rpm -Fvh a*rpm"... If some
> dependency comes up, I figure out what I need to install and install it,
> then continue.
>
> up2date would probably work too (update redhat-release, then let it go
> do its thing), although I haven't tried it yet.
I have. :^) I actually did it (upgraded form 7.2 to 7.3 anyway) with
Ximian as well. Works well enough so far. :)
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Bill Anderson
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