On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 14:40, Panu Matilainen wrote: > 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) > Also not supported, but has been done: use RedCarpet. The procedure is the same (can't say for RC-2) Method one: Edit the /etc/redhat-release to match the string of the version upgrading to Method Two: Install just the redhat-release RPM. Then just run RedCarpet or up2date and upgrade away. I used this to go from 6.2 (using Kernel 2.4) to 7.2 "online". Restarted services and all was well. :) Bill
