No FC2 updates anymore in all repo's?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Fri May 27 13:45:29 UTC 2005


Ralf Corsepius wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:15 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>RedHat Linux distributions have always been designed to be upgradeable; 
>>right from the outset the RPM package manager had as one of its design 
>>goals the ability to easily upgrade everything. The "official" way of 
>>upgrading though is to use the anaconda installer on the CDs/DVD to do 
>>the upgrade. This is the way least likely to result in problems. 
>>Upgrading via yum/apt may also work, yum will not work without major effort.
>> but YMMV; anaconda is coded with 
>>knowledge of things that need to be done (e.g. on FC4 it will remove the 
>>i386 version of perl on x86_64 installs), information that isn't 
>>available to yum or apt.
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>Well, that's what I call broked design.
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>Ralf
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I would be very interested in your solution to fix this particular issue 
any other way

regards
Rahul




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