Unofficial FAQ

Maxwell Kanat-Alexander maxka at myrealbox.com
Thu Nov 13 06:47:03 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:45, Elliott Wilcoxon wrote:
> It would be nice if you explained how to update from RH9 using 
> yum/apt/up2date.  I'd like to be able to do a apt-get dist-upgrade to 
> save download and installation time, but the bits I've read on the 
> mailing list don't make it clear if it works or doesn't.

	I think that's actually why I didn't include it in the FAQ -- I am also
not sure that it works. Even theoretically, thinking about the upgrade
path from RH9 to FC1, I'm not sure that yum or up2date or apt would do
it flawlessly.

	-M





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