Quoting Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxx>: > Step 2.1: after installation FL apt will prompt you to select a mirror > site, want it or not. So it's not optional by any means. You don't Changed. > Step 3.2: "apt-get -f install" is about *fixing* a "broken" rpmdb, > "apt-get check" checks for it's consistency. There's no need to run that > under normal conditions, apt-get checks for the consistency anyway on > each and every run and suggests running apt-get -f install if it finds > unsatisfied dependencies. I'd suggest removing that step entirely. Removed. > Step 7: Now Step 6. > "servers specified in the /etc/apt/sources.list" is probably a bit > confusing wrt "update" operation since there will be nothing in there by Removed. > default on FL apt, since the mirror-selector writes its entries into > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mirror-select.list. So you might want to mention > the sources.list.d thingy as well. Have no idea what that means. So just removed the whole bit about files. > The description of "updgrade" is a bit backwards: "upgrade" operation > will never, ever install any new packages or remove others, changed > dependencies or not. It'll just not upgrade something with changed > dependencies and on RHL that can be bad - see below. Hmmm... That's not what I've read/seen. I've not changed this yet. Can someone write up a new description for this command that is correct for FL apt? > Another thing: "dist-upgrade" is not a dangerous operation, really.. Okay, I'll trust you on that. > to job. On RHL that's not the case - in fact you'll *have* to use > dist-upgrade to get all errata installed: for example "timeconfig" was > obsoleted by "redhat-config-time" within RHL 8.0 errata. So should we be telling them to use dist-upgrade instead of upgrade in the instructions? Since we probably want them to get all the updates including updates which obsolete others, no? > - Panu - -- Eric Rostetter
