RE: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-17 Thread Mark Stewart
Hi David, The drakautoinst method I'm imagining would avoid all the issues and (most of the) complications involved with using urpmi (or apt-get or similiar program) to upgrade an installation. In terms of package management the I've been trying that method more or less with success

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
The drakautoinst method I'm imagining would avoid all the issues and (most of the) complications involved with using urpmi (or apt-get or similiar program) to upgrade an installation. In terms of package management the I've been trying that method more or less with success for many different

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-16 Thread Vox
This time [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) becomes daring and writes: The drakautoinst method I'm imagining would avoid all the issues and (most of the) complications involved with using urpmi (or apt-get or similiar program) to upgrade an installation. In terms of package management the

RE: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Stewart
: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity Is it possible to use drakautoinst to automate an effectively upgrade a machine from one release to another? Rather than try to use the upgrade Should be. I've wondered the same thing, although

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-11 Thread David E. Fox
Is it possible to use drakautoinst to automate an effectively upgrade a machine from one release to another? Rather than try to use the upgrade Should be. I've wondered the same thing, although not in the context of drakautoinst. Debian (for instance) allows you to do a dist-upgrade (aka

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 21:22, David E. Fox wrote: Is it possible to use drakautoinst to automate an effectively upgrade a machine from one release to another? Rather than try to use the upgrade Should be. I've wondered the same thing, although not in the context of drakautoinst. Debian

automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-05 Thread Mark Stewart
This is sort of tangential to the EOL discussion but... Is it possible to use drakautoinst to automate an effectively upgrade a machine from one release to another? Rather than try to use the upgrade option which so rarely succeeds it seems like it wouldn't necessarily be hard to automate the