Re: yup and YDL 2.0


Subject: Re: yup and YDL 2.0
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Wed Mar 14 2001 - 08:19:14 MST


It would be REALLY HELPFUL if YellowDog could provide guidance with YDL 2.0
on which packages are minor upgrades (ie bug fixes unlikely to require
changes to config files) and those likely to require a significant
investment of time.

I don't want to do a wholesale upgrade (the last was a major battle since
the new YDL distribution proved to be not directly compatible with several
programs I had installed) but would like to upgrade a few packages.

  Iain

on 14/3/01 12:18 am, Bryan Stillwell at bstill@terraplex.com wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:10:19AM -0500, Bill Fink wrote:
>> This may be a silly question, but once YDL 2.0 is out, will it be
>> possible to upgrade to 2.0 from 1.2.1 by doing a yup update?
>
> It /may/ be possible, but we aren't doing any tests to be certain. In
> the future the plan is to allow upgrading with yup from one version to
> the next, but we're not quite at that state yet. My recommendation
> would be to install fresh so that you don't have any old packages laying
> around.
>
> For example, yup in it's current state can't detect that we've switched
> to using xinetd instead of inetd. Problems like this were fixed in
> Debian by adding the dist-upgrade command which yup will also probably
> have added to it sometime.
>
>
>> Also, yup is currently broken.
> [snip]
>> So I guess there's a missing /pub/yellowdog symlink.
>
> We've contacted the systems administrators at sourceforge and it should
> be taken care of soon.
>
> Bryan



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