Re: [Cooker] use urpmi to upgrade distro (i,e from 8.2 - 9.0 or Cooker - 9.0)
Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the thing that the apt-get evangelists are always going on about is the ability to use apt-get to do complete O/S upgrades, live. Is there any way to upgrade a running 8.2 (or even a Cooker) system to 9.0(beta, rc1, rc2, final when it comes out) by playing with the urpmi.cfg file (or altering urpmi sources in another way)? Now I will go and play and if I figure out a way to do this, I will let you all know. :-) urpmi of 8.2 is not solid enough to do system upgrade, but urpmi of 9.0 is right. This means a urpmi of 9.0 compiled for 8.2 will be done as updates and will authorize such upgrade. The same for 8.1 may be done too but there could be a problem as urpmi doesn't handle file conflicts (because it doesn't have the necessary information to handle such conflicts). François.
[Cooker] use urpmi to upgrade distro (i,e from 8.2 - 9.0 or Cooker - 9.0)
One of the thing that the apt-get evangelists are always going on about is the ability to use apt-get to do complete O/S upgrades, live. Is there any way to upgrade a running 8.2 (or even a Cooker) system to 9.0(beta, rc1, rc2, final when it comes out) by playing with the urpmi.cfg file (or altering urpmi sources in another way)? Now I will go and play and if I figure out a way to do this, I will let you all know. :-) b. -- Brian J. Murrell msg74460/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] use urpmi to upgrade distro (i,e from 8.2 - 9.0 or Cooker - 9.0)
there should be a parent RPM that depends on all the RPM's that you own... and this would work! in other words, it would have to figure out what you have installed, create this fake package on the fly, and then go from there solving depencies. A good exercise in Perl... but, there are a million other solutions for this of course... NOTE: I usually just start installing the lowlevel stuff by hand and let urpmi work it's magick (I guess I'm not the only one doing that... all these guilty eyes reading this...). For instance: urpmi gnome-desktop the following 3000 packages need to be removed for others to be upgraded huge list... I'm done. That's all my installation, all based on Gnome :-) One of the thing that the apt-get evangelists are always going on about is the ability to use apt-get to do complete O/S upgrades, live. Is there any way to upgrade a running 8.2 (or even a Cooker) system to 9.0(beta, rc1, rc2, final when it comes out) by playing with the urpmi.cfg file (or altering urpmi sources in another way)? Now I will go and play and if I figure out a way to do this, I will let you all know. :-) b. -- Brian J. Murrell attach3 )(- Luis Mondesi System Administrator/Web developer LatinoMixed.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] You think Oedipus had a problem -- Adam was Eve's mother. Be secured. Get the public signature here: http://www.latinomixed.com/lems1/public-a.asc
