How to upgarde versions through apt/yum - possible ?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Apr 6 04:01:10 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:46 -0400, David Curry wrote:
> Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Is it possible to upgrade versions using apt / yum ? I use synaptic
> > and when I 'refresh', only packages for the present version are
> > listed. However I have desisted the idea of setting higher version in
> > repositories list as upgrading might be lot more than just installing
> > newer version rpms
> >
> > Parameshwara Bhat
> >
> I understand your question about "upgrading" as asking about changing
> from one Fedora Core distribution to another as in FC2 --> FC3. If
> that is the case, you may be able to find something through Google that
> describes a procedure for upgrading a system through an ftp conection.
> Upgrading through synaptic might work, but I don't think
> synaptic/yum/up2date are designed to do that.
What makes you think this? You could not be further from the truth.
> I am no expert, but I think downloading the isos for the later
> distribution you are interested in and then choosing the upgrade option
> for installation would likely be a safer route than trying to do it
> through synaptic.
Well, yes it's safer, because it avoids tripping a couple of packaging
bugs apt/yum etc. occasionally trip, but that doesn't mean apt/yum etc.
upgrades are impossible or difficult.
Ralf
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