Hi, Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 16.13 schrieb Christian Mayrhuber: > Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2003 15:07 schrieb ComplexMind: > from a upgradeability point of view Debian is really excellent. You can upgrade > from an older Debian version to a newer one with two commands: > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > This usually does not break anything. At least, it never broke something on my > machines. >
[...] I'm currently running SuSE 8.2 vservers on a SuSE 8.0 host machine (legacy because i prefer debian). To have the neat ways of updating your system with apt-get, you can install apt-get together with rpm on Redhat and SuSE (SuSE: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ , Redhat: http://freshrpms.net/) All my vservers do have this configuration which allows me to have a very minimal skeleton as a good base to upgrade: vse0002:/ # cat /etc/SuSE-release SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) VERSION = 8.2 vse0002:/ # apt-get install irssi Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: glib2 The following NEW packages will be installed: glib2 irssi 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1107kB of archives. After unpacking 3569kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 ftp://suse.privmirror.xy SuSE/8.2-i386/base glib2 2.2.1-18 [385kB] Get:2 ftp://suse.privmirror.xy SuSE/8.2-i386/base irssi 0.8.6-34 [722kB] Fetched 1107kB in 0s (2065kB/s) Executing RPM (-Uvh)... glib2 ################################################## irssi ################################################## vse0002:/ # done :) My recommendation: - If you want to setup a new system: use Debian's Sarge Release aka Testing because it's a compromise of stable (stable, old) and unstable (bleeding edge) - If not: try apt-get for your rpm based distribution. hth. with kind regards, Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Roland Moriz -- Muenchen/Germany - http://www.roland-moriz.de/
