James Sparenberg wrote:
I've not been so lucky: it didn't prompt to change the cd, and the only hint were that "there was an error installing package xxxx". Of course switching the vt I saw that it wasn't finding the packages because they were on the 2nd or 3rd cd.And then spend the best part of a weekend fixing the breakage (if you manage to).supposedly one inserts the new CD and selects LiveUpdate. YMMV.
Bye
Actually I've had luck with it since about 8.1... in fact I upgraded a 7.2 box to 9.0 straight out. Problems are.
After a while (a *long* while) I had to stop the update (don't ask how, I don't remember now), so I had roughly one third of the packages updated. Luckily the system (a test machine anyway) was still bootable, so I found that the urpmi sources were a mess. Hand edited them and urpmi did the rest.
Not a pleasant experience.
That's the first thing I do after I upgrade any package, moreso if I upgraded the whole distro. Pity that rpm doesn't store the modifications you made to the previous default config file to make it easier to apply those to the new default config file.1. If you have modified many of your config files you'll find .rpmnew extensions all over the place. Best way to find them is to update the locate dbase and do locate rpmnew.
It's what I did on my "real" machine. Still there were things to fix with urpmi afterwards but I don't remember (it wasn't as painful as LiveUpdate).
2. Live-update is way to slow... boot and do upgrade ... still slow but
a factor of 5 faster than liveupdate. (it errors too much on the side of
caution.)
I tried Debian and I didn't like it for variuos reasons, but I *do* like the concept that you can seamlessly upgrade (and downgrade) the whole distro without stopping and rebooting your machine (though in my limited experience I failed miserably to upgrade from the stable debian to the testing one).
Nope, I install everything with rpm. If there's no rpm I make myself one (and rebuild it after the upgrade).3. If you did it from source (not source rpms) things in these areas might get mucked. RPM doesn't know from tarballs.
4. Fastest way is to still do an install keeping your partitions and /home. (shear time factor.)
But there are many things that are kept outside /home (e.g. under /var). And all your customizations under /etc Bye -- Luca Olivetti Note.- This message reached you today, it may not tomorrow if you are using MAPS or other RBL. They arbitrarily IP addresses not related in any way to spam, disrupting Internet connectivity. See http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/21/1944247 and http://theory.whirlycott.com/~phil/antispam/rbl-bad/rbl-bad.html
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