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Re: XFS ISO images for RedHat 7.3

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:40:05AM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:29:00PM +0200, Yves Thommes wrote:
> > When will there be ISO images for RedHat 7.3 please ?
> When someone from the community makes one.  
> 
> > I really would like to upgrade my servers from RedHat 7.2 to 7.3 but
> > they're all running on an XFS filesystem and without an XFS ISO image
> > i'm unable to upgrade, i guess :-)
> There is another option.  There is a project out there to add rpm
> support to apt.  Apt is the tool that allows Debian to upgrade from
> release to release so easily.  There are several RedHat mirrors that
> have aptified.  I'd recommend upgrading that way, just be careful to
> keep your XFS enabled kernel.
> 
> http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/

rpm apt will not touch kernels (you can define other ones to be held)
unless specifically requested to. Even then it will only perform an -i
and not -U or such.

It's very nice. See also http://www.freshrpms.net (apt.freshrpms.net).

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