I hate to post another non-productive email on this list, but here is an observation
of mine: I've
been on this list for several months now and i have seen many a person ask this same
question (i
myself asked it at one point, at least to myself), but i have not seen *ONE* person
give
definative guidance on how to do this successfully. I STRONGLY recommend (ok so i
guess this is a
little productive) building a test box (even if it's just another minimal install on
a different
partition of the same box) and trying it there. That way if/when it all goes to hell,
it doesn't
take your system with it.
And if you figure it out, *please tell us*, i'm sure there are any number of readers,
myself
included, who would like to know just how to do this. (Can you guess where i'm at? I
still have
3.0.5-27mdk installed...i just haven't had time to attack that problem.)
:-),
j
--- Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am presently in the late process of rebuilding my system. I reinstalled
> Mandrake 7.2 and am now upgrading beyond 7.2, but not quite to 8.0. I am
> trying to do this cleanly and systematically.
>
> I am about to switch to glibc2.2, rebuild my kernel, rebuild XFree86, and
> then, I would like to upgrade from rpm-3.x to 4.x. Last time I attempted
> that particular change, it totally dicked up my system with all my previously
> installed rpms being lost to the new rpm.
>
> I would like to avoid this on this go around. How does one upgrade to
> rpm-4.x without losing the list/database of installed rpms from 3.x?
>
> --
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
>
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