Re: [Cooker] [ALPHA:SPARC] 7.1b -> cooker update

[andre]

On Friday 06 June 2003 19:17, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> Jaroslaw,
> >1) is there a way to upgrade 7.1b -> cooker on a running system?
>
> This _should_ be possible. Grab a copy of the mirror, put it local on
> the box, remove all possible 7.1b packages from the machine, upgrade the
> rest to cooker. Should work, but it may be hairy at times... :-/
>
Wouldn't a rpm --root install not be better. Install 7.1 on one partition and 
cooker with tar xvfz rpm-4.2.tar.gz; ./configure;make;make install; rpm 
--initdb --root /mnt/cooker; rpm --root /mnt/cooker basesystem..rpm etc.