Re: RedHat 8.0 and XFS, the sad story continues ... (was: Begging :^))

[Ragnar Kjørstad <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:48:10PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> Can't I just do that with rpm -Fvh *? :-D

Sure you can. I won't stop you. :-)
But you may have to fiddle a little; e.g. you probably don't want to
upgrade _everything_ at once (because then your server will be
unavailable for a long time), so you have to find smaller subset of
packages to upgrade without breaking dependencies.

And if you have non redhat packages installed there may be dependancies
that requires extra attention. 

Apt-get just helps you with the fiddeling-part.

This is hardly the place for package-management discussions, but
bottom-line is that it is possible to upgrade xfs-enabled redhat servers
by upgrading just the rpms (skipping the RH installer) either directly
with rpm or with a wrapper like apt up2date.



-- 
Ragnar Kjørstad