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Re: [PLUG] Re: plug Digest, Vol 8, Issue 17
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On Fri, July 15, 2005 12:25 pm, Malcolm J Harwood wrote:
> You do? I rev'd Mandrake 9.2 to 10.1 using urpmi without problems. I'm
> sure
> you can do the same thing with apt based distros. (I haven't used RedHat
> in a
> while, so I don't know if you can rev that the same way these days).
> Sometimes large system level changes can cause issues (eg. the change from
> devfs to udev), but I can't see gentoo avoiding them.
>
We run (soon to be were running :) ) Mandrake at work, and when 10.1 came
out we basically wiped 9.2 and installed 10.1 from scratch, and then ran
our scripts to reinstall the needed software (or use the central repo).
But I remember having _lots_ of issues with urpmi, and from talking with
Mandrake devs, was talked down from upgrading Mandrake using urpmi.
I've heard Debian handles itself pretty well when it comes to upgrades
(although that rarely happens :-p).
- From previous experiences (Mandrake, Slack, FreeBSD), the only one who
could upgrade without crapping out on me was BSD, and on Linux, the only
distro I haven't had to reinstall due to upgrades is Gentoo. What do the 2
have in common? Ports/portage -> source packages
- -Cos
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