tim hall wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Monday 19 January 2004 3:30 pm, Greg Reddin wrote: > >>What about Agnula? How do you upgrade >>individual packages? How do you back out the upgrade if there's a >>problem? Do you manage a separate "test" environment to keep from >>bringing down your DAW? > > > I'm using Agnula on a double-booted system. I've got Woody/DeMuDi-1.0 on hda > and Sarge/DeMuDi-1.1.0 on hdb I've set up chroots in both directions so I can > access the one while booted into the other. It works for me. > > You'd probably want to track the Agnua/unstable packages - they do maintain > ReHMuDi packages too, which I imagine you can install on top of Red Hat same > as Debian. You may even be able to use apt, I don't know. > > I'm actually using synaptic as a package manager ATM and apart from a couple > of niggles it works well. I can't imagine running a system which didn't have > apt - It is super-cool IMHO and extremely well documented, such that I'm able > to run insane mixed systems side by side with relative ease. I'd say it was > easier to configure and run than, say kmail. I'm still a relative newbie, so > experience may show me the pitfalls, but I haven't seen them yet. I guess > backing out of upgrades is tricky to say the least, these tools weren't > really designed to go backwards. Apt-pinning works for packages in most > cases. > For what it's worth... I use YUM instead of apt and I LOVE IT! It is the easiest way to upgrade. Try it out. I've not tried downgrading though. -- =========================================================== Richard K. Ingalls Director of Information Technology Glenwood R-8 School District West Plains, MO email..ringalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx web....glenwood.k12.mo.us ph.....417.256.4849 fax....417.257.2567 "Glenwood R-8: home of the mustangs!" ===========================================================
