On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:50:30AM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> Don't! I'd forgotten quite how shitty Redhat upgrades are. About the
> only reason I can think of for upgrading is to get the new version of
> rpm, which is required for many of the packages on rpmfind.net and which
> is a right bastard to compile from source cos it relies on a gazillion
> libraries which weren't in 6.x. And that reason alone ain't good enough.
> I'd have been better off switching to Debian I reckon, despite the big
> dose of pain involved.
>
Someone here upgraded with no problem, but hadn't run any of the Helix
updater on his 6.x.
You can download an rpm of the updated rpm (errr...). Can't remember
where I picked mine from...
jp
