On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:30, James Sparenberg wrote: > Ok, > > I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to > 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is > > urpmi.removmedia -a (get rid of all current dbases) > > urpmi.addmedia (added cooker cooker-contrib and plf-cooker) > > urpmi urpmi (get the new urpmi first it's ability to download install > and then download more is a big boon. But be prepared for a huge list of > changes to accompany it as well.) > > urpmi --auto-auto select --force > > why the force ... because signatures in the cooker are all over the > place, and plf cooker isn't signed with the same sig as the rest of plf > etc etc and I got real tired of saying y every 3 or 4 rpms. > > urpmi kernel. > > Basic rundown did it work. Yes. Was it quick ... no expect to let > the box run almost as long as it takes to download a single ISO. Would > I recommend it to anyone but someone who knows MDK... NO I repeat NO. > Some rpms won't install because of conflicts with plf or texstar (I > forced those like kdebase and kdebase-common.) You also need to know > that things like konsole are seperate and don't get installed here. So > it's not perfect but dang close. > > Can it be done over the net YES. I've done it twice that way. Once > here at home (local simulation) and once to a box in a remote office for > someone. Both times it worked and worked right. Both boxes worked > afterward and so far no real problems. All configs etc are retained and > as such there was little if anything to do after. I honestly don't like > the MDK kde as well as the texstar version (I lose the ability to do > full modifications of the panel as well as no randar support.) But it > does seem to start faster. More to come. > > James
Forgot to mention 2 things. 1. The box seems to remain usable during the upgrade process. If an rpm fails to install due to conflict it's retained in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms and an rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm seems to take care of the problem. James
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