[lug] RedHat 9?

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> writes:

>> KRUD 9 support for apt-get is nearly ready for prime time.

Nate> But apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't work well on RH boxen, does it?
Nate> i.e. -- KRUD 9 to KRUD 10 -- via a one-line command without
Nate> anything breaking?

Not yet that I know of... but the rpm apt is gradually getting all the
features that the debian apt has. ;) 

Nate> That's what I *love* about dist-upgrade on Debian... no other
Nate> distro has ever really had it.  Not that worked correctly
Nate> anyway.  Debian not only has it but solicits folks to test it
Nate> before release!

Yeah, would be nice... sometimes there are things that happen in the
installer on upgrades tho, so those would have to be handled. Ie,
migrating to ext3 from ext2, etc...

Nate> (RedHat has no financial interest in supporting a feature like
Nate> that... while they might eventually get there, it can't be a
Nate> priority to a company that would prefer folks go out and buy
Nate> another boxed set at each major release number?)

True, but RedHat isn't currently supporting the rpm-apt stuff
either. Thats all being done by others. 

It's worth noting that someone on the last RedHat beta list noted that
they used RedHat's up2date tool to upgrade from 8.0 to the beta by
doing: 

up2date --upgrade-to-release 

So, that functionality is showing up in their tools as well. 

Nate> Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com

kevin



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