On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > To clarify: I'm wondering how the distributions compare as to upgrading from > one release to the next, rather than updates to the current release. > > We've had one person state that SUSE's upgrade process hasn't worked well, > historically. How about Mandrake and Slackware? RedHat's is a moot point; > but what are Fedora's plans? > > I think Gentoo and Debian can upgrade themselves without release cd's; but how > much breakage occurs in the process? > > Except for Dep's articles on upgrading SUSE, which were enough to keep me from > trying (Thank you, Dep.), this isn't an issue that has gotten much press. > > Andrew Gould
I used a package called 'swaret' to upgrade from Slackware 9.0 => 9.1 and it went very smoothly. It's not an 'official' slackware package but it *is* avaliable in the Extras directory. Also, there is 'slapt-get' and 'emerde' out there; I haven't used either one but have heard Good Things(tm) about slapt-get. YMMV HTH & HAND Myles -- Myles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Calgary, AB, Canada eh? Slackware-9.1 + CLI + Mutt-1.4.1i + Lynx|Links|eLinks With all that power, who needs a bloated GUI ?? Alberta Mirror for Linux-SxS.Org: http://linux-sxs.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
