Re: RHN?? Re: apt and upgrades

[M A Young]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Ali-Reza Anghaie wrote:

>  On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:12, M A Young wrote:
>  > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Chris Ricker wrote:
>  > > RHN can also be used for OS upgrades....
>  > >
>  > > up2date --upgrade-to-release=foo
>  >
>  > Though only at your own risk. I don't think RedHat provide any guarantee
>  > that this option will actually work (though my guess would be that
>  > shrike->severn probably would).
>
>  *blinks*
>
>  I thought that was a suggestion for the future. I have no idea it was
>  actually in Shrike... it's not documented in Shrike. Whacky. 
That is probably because they don't want to have to support it!

>  *considers trying for the heck of it*
>
>  Although I'd be hesitant due to RPM problems I still have in Shrike. Perhaps
>  from 9.0.93 onwards it's worth a shot. Severn's RPM has been rock solid for
>  me so far. 
Update rpm to 4.2-1 or later first. Of course it won't work at the moment
because Redhat haven't put any packages in the severn channel yet.

	Michael Young