On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:44:40PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> > You can upgrade RH6.2 to RH7.0 in a number of ways.
> > My preferred way (to do any upgrade) is to obtain a CD rom and run it
> > from the CDrom. You can either buy this (cetustech or everythinglinux)
> > or download the iso and burn a CD.
> >
> mount /mnt/cdrom
> rpm -FUvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*
> reboot
>
> (What the "F" does is "Only upgrade if the package is already installed")
> You also find that rpm will take an __age__ to generate the dependiences file.
If he's at the point where forward compatibility for rpms was broken
this won't work, surely.
cheers,
Martin
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