On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:56:59AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > I wish to use one of my systems with all the latest Rawhide packages for > testing and bug fixing purposes. Is there an automated way of upgrading to > the latest available Rawhide packages? I'd suggest mirroring the Rawhide tree, and using a tool like apt, poldek, or urpmi (from Conectiva, PLD, and Mandrake, respectively) or up2date (using current, a clone of RedHat's up2date server) to maintain your own repository. [Find them all at freshmeat.net.] Once you do that, you can use the automated dependency-checking tools to continuously upgrade your system, and roll it back [at least using apt] when something fundamental gets broken and you can't fix it immediately. Since packages are added and removed from Rawhide all of the time, you'll want to build in some hysteresis, allowing packages to stick around for a while once they are superceded. Note that some tools like apt are rather unforgiving about dependencies, so when they break (and they eventually will), you'll need to clean up the mess, usually by uninstalling the offending packages and fixing the RPM yourself. Mirroring is simple and can be done via ftp with lftp or similar, or using rsync. Regards, Bill Rugolsky _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
