>>>>> "Matt" == Matt McKenzie <[email protected]> writes:
Matt> IMHO, you get this response because it is the preferred method,
Matt> especially if you are more than 2 versions distant from current.
Matt> Doing an upgrade from N-2 or earlier almost invariably leads
Matt> to... headaches ;) (N being current) Same thing with upgrading
Matt> more than one step at a time.
Here's a FWIW.
I am normally a Debian/unstable guy and to me "releases" are an alien
concept. However, recently I have deployed a few Ubuntu boxes for
family members for "usability" reasons. And, actually, also on a few
laptops I have floating around. A couple of them had fallen a few
releases behind and their users recently got ominous warnings that
support of 9.04 was going away.
So, I cautiously did the recommended thing, which was "update-manager
-d", and ... it worked fine. I had to re-do it three times (9.04 ->
9.10 -> 10.04 -> 10.10) to get up to date, but it all went fine. Not
so much as a hiccup. Maybe it's a .deb thing that it goes so
smoothly, I don't know. Only that I'd heard the "oh, do a fresh
install" advice, I ignored it, and I seem to have lived to tell the
tale.
Matt> [...]
Matt> cat rpmlist.txt | sort > rpmlistsorted.txt
Oooh! UUOC!
sort rpmlist.txt > rpmlistsorted.txt
though personally, if I wanted it sorted I would typically just pipe
the output through sort to begin with, something like:
rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}\n' -a | sort > rpmlist.txt
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