--- Adam Dingle <adam@medovina.org> wrote: > I discovered Red Hat's Rawhide FTP directory > (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/) not > long ago, and I've > successfully grabbed a few packages from it and > installed them on top of my > Red Hat 7.2 installation. OK, so now I've decided > I'm ready to head further > out onto the bleeding edge - I'd like to install > Rawhide in its entirety. If you *REALLY* want to install rawhide in it's entirety, you can just upgrade all of your packages using the -Uvv --force --nodeps flags to rpm. That most likely won't get you very far, unless you write a small script to "pick out" the rpms that you already have installed. I wouldn't recommend installing any of these packages unless you are ready to have a completely broken machine (in case you haven't read the docs, you get to own _ALL_ the pieces that are left when you are done) Most of the packages that are introduced in Rawhide aren't for public consumption. They either have a ton of dependency issues that you can't solve unless you have or are willing to build the packages that solve them, OR they are just plain broken, or they break other things. SO, if you STILL want to install Rawhide, and you are SURE you know what you are doing, then the fastest way is to upgrade the packages by hand and learn as you go along. Don't blame us when your machine starts "rolling" though. <G> ===== Kevin C. McConnell --RHCE-- <RedHat Certified Engineer> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
