Am 18.03.06 20:01 schrieb(en) Jim Hart:
You _can_ in fact upgrade from one version of Linux to another, even with YDL.How?
By carefully replacing rpm's with the newer versions. I don't say that this is easy, in particular with applications linking against libstdc++, but is /does/ work. On my box, I have ~900 rpm's installed, a mixture of YDL 4.1 (~700), several self-compiled ones and even some left-overs from LinuxPPC (1999?).
As long as you /only/ use rpm's, the upgrade needs some experience, but it will result in a working system after a reasonable amount of work. If you have self-compiled stuff (I e.g. have Firefox 1.5.0.1, OpenOffice 2.0.1 and Eclipse) around it will of course need more attention as the rpm system doesn't take care of keeping all lib dependencies, but, again, with some care it works. I did even upgrade a company server from (Intel) Redhat 9 to FC 4 (which included a change from Linux kernel 2.4 to 2.6) with the need to reboot at the very end of the process, and it *did* work.
Just my € 0.01...
Cheers, Albrecht.
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