[clue] Impressions on 11.04?

CP Constantine conrad at 1211.net
Sun May 1 10:16:24 MDT 2011


On 5/1/2011 2:29 AM, Brian Gibson wrote:
> "I have live-converted a Redhat machine into a Debian machine"
>
> that might make for a good demo

first thing you want is a statically-compiled dpkg and apt-get, and a 
handful of patch and awk scripts to save out some config settings and 
identify packages you want to track, and mostly you're good to go.

The process is hardly massively clean, you end up with a lot of legacy 
RH files left, but that's rarely a bad thing when all said and done.

you can pretty much do the same in reverse from Debian to RH.

Mostly, the big worry is libC replacements, but as GlibC has gotten 
better about version differential in recent years, it's become far less 
of a 'brain surgery' option than it used to be.

And it's certainly a great demo of why every linux admin should keep a 
library of their most vital tools, in statically-compiled versions, 
handy - makes things like this far less hassle.






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