joe said: > Jay Daniels wrote: > >>I have been using yum to update packages and everything seems to work ok. >>Also noticed that some Fedora users use a port of apt-get. What is the >>"official" package updater for Fedora? Which works best apt-get port or >>yellow dog updater? >> >> >> > I mucked about with yum a bit and it didn't seem to be able to figure > out that it needed to use an http proxy, even though that was set in > /etc/profile, as well as yum.conf. apt-get worked like a charm though, > and I've been using it with great results - fills the role of up2date > from my RH8/9 days. > >>Someone posted that you can do a live update (dsl/cable) to fedora. Has >>anyone tried this and how? >> >> > Absolutely, I've remotely upgraded several RH8/9 boxes to fedora, and > they remained up and running, and in service, the whole time (It took > several hours, but as I said, I was logged into the boxes watching the > upgrade process the whole time) > > The basic idea is this: > > 1. install apt. > > 2. run the following commands to get your system up to date and ready > for upgrade > apt-get install > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > 3. edit the /etc/apt/sources.conf to point to fedora core 1 repositories > instead of RH8/9 or whatever > Ok, but I don't have a sources.conf, I do have a sources.list. I assume this is were I need to change the url to core 1 or latest fedora repositories. How do I find the closest mirror or is there a way to update the sources.list file with apt-get? jay -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
