[lug] RedHat 9?

[jd]

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 16:12, John Hernandez wrote:
> On Friday 23 May 2003 03:16 pm, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > But apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't work well on RH boxen, does it?
> >
> > i.e. -- KRUD 9 to KRUD 10 -- via a one-line command without anything
> > breaking?
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade on RH is important, but it accomplishes a different 
> thing.  Most notably, it won't upgrade your box to a newer RH release.
> 
> I don't think you can expect major release upgrades to just happen without any 
> intervention.  For one thing, configuration file formats tend to change, and 
> I don't think any distro can resolve these automatically.
> 
> While Debian's dist-upgrade feature is pretty darn good, I'm still partial to 
> a fresh install for major release changes.  As someone said earlier, it tends 
> to whack out older cruft and give you a known starting point.  With good 
> documentation, it takes me very little time to drop things back in /etc and 
> get it all going again.

I agree, for a major upgrade its nice to have a clean slate.

But the idea of being to move into a less stable...more current 
code base at the drop of a command (and the editing of sourcelist)
is really nice.

jd

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