:You still gotta drive to install that, (always buged me to try and find
:that many d**med floppys) We'll be look at a better interface for upgrades
:than manual frubing your way thru rpm -F *.rpm soon, it does work but it's
:not quite for the faint of heart. Trying it via rpm -U is even more
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Denis Havlik wrote:
:You still gotta drive to install that, (always buged me to try and find
:that many d**med floppys) We'll be look at a better interface for upgrades
:than manual frubing your way thru rpm -F *.rpm soon, it does work but it's
:not quite for the faint
From: Denis Havlik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Because "install" means "wipe my HD and install the new system", while
"upgrade" means "please give my old system a face lift, but do not ruin
it". In my opinion "Upgrade" should be made much better - in the future
there will be much more need for
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
As it is, "Upgrade" does more-or-less an "rpm -U " and one has to hope
everything goes well - which it does not, as I have painfully found out.
Completely agree here. You could add this to the list of problems: in
What bugs me is
rpm -F ~ftp/pub/mirrors/(release)/Mandrake/RPMS/*.rpm
(personaly i do mine a portion at a time)
...Hmm, this will really perform a "full" OS version update?
I.e., from 6.0 to 6.1? And not just update the relevant packages while
keeping a 6.0 base system?
I always assumed
Have a try at rpm -F, and we'd love input on how you'd like to see it
improved
I'd like to perform the upgrade on a running system, have it act
just as though I'd booted off the floppy (and not give me any complaints
about upgrading in the proper order--i.e., just like the
Everybody else feel free to pipe in, the cc: should be the the correct
list for those that would like tobe envloved indepth, I'm not sure ATM if
it's managed by majordomo or sympa so check the website for specific
instructions..
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
Have a try at rpm
