On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 19:18 -0400, Derick Centeno wrote: > Hi Eric! > > The points you raise are always interesting and a pleasure to learn > from. It is admirable that others, including Jeffrey, have gone in > this direction and gotten things to work. Perhaps what is needed is > one place to collect and store all this effort and knowledge for > review, study and examination -- so that this (the work we are > discussing) and others like it can be evaluated in a common and shared > view. This would elevate this and other efforts like it, from the > realm of hear say or rumor to something of a more reliable level > determined or evaluated/experienced by members of the YDL community. >
there is alot of this documented on the forums. > The basis of my concern regarding Jeffrey's approach regarding using > yum to update/upgrade across different versions of YDL however, is > exactly the problem you experienced. > > Besides there is another difficulty also, yum didn't exist yet for YDL > 3; it used apt-get. > um, it did? apt-get was available but yum debuted in 3.0, and 2.3 used 'yup' Yellowdog UPdater, which is where 'yum' gets its name Yellowdog Updater Modified. > However, there's nothing like an official statement from TSS: > > http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/faq/upgrade.shtml > ========= > yeah installing 4.x directly is a much better idea, and on OW installing 4.0 wont work but 4.0.1 should (4.0 didnt have some OW support compiled into the kernel) i havnt looked at this thread too closely, but will check on installing 4.x on an OW again, and make a new install guide if need be. sloopy. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
