On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:21, Brian Johnson wrote: > While we've got you here ... > > I was wondering about the practicality of a version upgrade using apt or yum (I > think it's possible using up2date) > Well, yum can do it and apt can do it. I think any up2date version could do it as well (with some tricks), except it's just as just as unsupported as upgrading the distribution with apt or yum. In RHL 9 up2date does have --upgrade-to-release=<version> option, dunno what the support status of that is (it's not advertised anywhere except "up2date --help" output so I doubt it's really supported ATM) > Do you know if people have successfully done this (ie RH 8 to 9 and beyond?) My laptop has been dist-upgraded with apt from RHL 7.1 to 9 and my collagues laptop went from 7 to 8.0 before a reinstall was necessary due to lack of disk space. That's not to say it was always smooth sailing, especially the 7.x to 8.0 was *nasty* with the apt-rpm version available at that time. The current one (0.5.5cnc5) seems to handle that smoothly though. Can't speak for yum, except for Seth saying "it works" :) - Panu -
