On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > Argh, rpm is really that stupid that you have to tell it when it's > upgrading?!
Yep. Worst thing is, it's still not guaranteed that it won't replace configuration files upon "upgrade". > I'm __so__ glad the debian alpha port was already usable > (although it wasn't "release-ready for more than a year, and still better > than the RH product) when I first got my alpha, and had fought with the > RH install for a month :-) Hehehe...yeah, it kinda sucked when I first came into it. At the time, we were still patching dpkg to get it to compile :-) And I won't give the history on gcc.... :-) > Imagine what RH users will think of "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" > :-) I'm *still* trying to find a good way of upgrading a RedHat installation. At my last job, I hated the thought so much that I was trying to convert them to Debian rather than attempt an upgrade of the existing machines. C
