Hi David, The drakautoinst method I'm imagining would avoid all the issues and (most of the) complications involved with using urpmi (or apt-get or similiar program) to "upgrade" an installation. In terms of package management the method would simply record which packages you had installed before doing the "upgrade" and automatically select the equivalent packages included in the new distro. I'm sure there are some wrinkles that would still need to worked out, e.g. software that gets restructured into different package structures. In such cases the tool would simply generate a list of stuff that couldn't be resolved and the user could deal with figuring out how to get the missing stuff installed.
::mark > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David E. Fox > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] > Mandrake's Golden Opportunity > > > > 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? > > >
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