On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:22, David E. Fox wrote: > > Is it possible to use drakautoinst to automate an effectively upgrade a > > machine from one release to another? Rather than try to use the upgrade > > Should be. I've wondered the same thing, although not in the > context of drakautoinst. > > Debian (for instance) allows you to do a dist-upgrade (aka apt-get > update && apt-get dist-upgrade). It seemes that one could do the > equivalernt -- at least with respect to Cooker, by urpmi > --auto-select. > > But that's fine if you want to mirror what is in cooker, but what if > you want to migrate to 9.1rc2, or another version? Would it be as > simple as finding a source that was a "reference" standard for the > particular release candidate, adding it to your urpmi source list, and > then doing an update followed by a urpmi --auto-select? >
Q: what's the difference between doing it with a cooker directory and a release directory? A: Someone at MandrakeSoft changed the label from cooker to release. Hint: they didn't tell urpmi about that. Upgrading the whole distribution with urpmi isn't like apt-get dist-upgrade yet -- I think you'd have to use force quite a few times, and you'd have to think about which parts to do first. It seems to me it'd go fairly smoothly if you did glibc and gcc first, then tried to do the rest of the distribution though. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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