[CLUE-Tech] rpm incremental upgrade?

[Young, Ed]

Tim: You may have been clear, just not to me ;) 

I guess I should now admit that I'm still rpm ignorant, if it's not readily
apparent. 

Ya, Mike,  I have one system running Debian at home, but it's falling into
disuse mainly since we're developing at work using RH systems. I've been
developing using RH 6.0 (modified) but now need to upgrade the kernel for
some new hardware support.  I should know more about rpm, I spoze...Now's a
good time to learn perhaps. 

Tim suggested I do a full upgrade to 7.0. I'd love to do that *if* I can do
it simply by either running an upgrade script, or some other "easy" method.
Otherwise I'll upgrade the necessary libraries and packages, as long as I
can figure out what they are. 

Currently, I'm looking at the 2.4.1 Documentation dir and it's telling me
what libraries I need to upgrade. Upgrading rpm to do it was unexpected. 

So if it's easiest to upgrade fully to 7.0, can it be done simply by
mounting the install disk and running the "upgrade" option. Will this make
all my dreams come true? Is it like Debian where you issue "apt-get
dist-upgrade" and it works (most of the time) 

I hate starting from scratch...

See you guys at the meeting tonight, 

Ed
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Clark [SMTP:mclark at techangle.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:45 PM
> To:	clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject:	Re: [CLUE-Tech] rpm incremental upgrade?
> 
> I think that Ed is a Debian user, thus 'upgrade' to RH 7.0 may be
> realative ;-).
> 
> I would try to find the tar.gz file for either the binary or the source
> and
> compile it.  This would eliminate the cart/horse problem of the RPM.  I
> have
> heard rumors of the two versions of RPM conflicting, so you will probably
> want
> to remove any traces of RPM, then install the tar.gz version.
> 
> Ed, are you still with Debian??
> 
> mc
> 
> Tim Russell wrote:
> 
> > My point was that, instead of trying to get RPM, etc up to the new
> standard,
> > it may make sense to just do a wholesale upgrade to RH 7.0 now that the
> > fixes make it, IMHO, reasonably stable.
> >
> > The "relevant errata RPM upgrades" I was referring to were the fixes
> that
> > RedHat released for 7.0 to fix the broken compiler they released with
> it,
> > etc.
> >
> > Sorry I wasn't clearer.
> >
> > Tim
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