On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> >
> > Hmm, would be usable but I think of two things:
> >
> > 1. It would be cute to have a script line mkkickstart which generates the
> > config for an Upgrade (easy i think)
>
> mkkickstart is for cloning the same release; it does not cope well with
> upgrades where packages get renamed, split up differently or otherwise
> reoganised.
>
> It could not know that xntp3 is not part of RHL 7, thought the RHL 7 upgrade
> just might take account of it.
That's why it should be the other way round.
If RHL 7 provides such a script, generating an kickstart-file for the
upgrade to RHL 7 (and even checking the Disk-space), it would be aware of
any new stuff, which should be taken care of during upgrade.
Then you can even do the upgrade as an at- job or something
LL&P Ulrich
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