Subject: Re: Will we be able to update to YDL 2 ????
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 03:30:10 MDT
I asked a similar question a while back - here's a repost of my question and
Hollis' reply.
>>On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>X Windows, Gnome, KDE, and glibc are fairly major (by your definition). By
>other definitions, ncurses (for example) is major since a lot of your
>installed packages will depend on the old one (iow to upgrade ncurses you need
>to upgrade 20+ packages at once).
>> 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.
>You're free to do this... in fact if it turns out something's taking too much
>time for you then you could stop installing it.
>
>However from a QA perspective I assure you that it's near impossible to
>support people upgrading rather than installing.
>
>If you aren't comfortable using rpm to rip out and replace the guts of your
>system, I really don't see any solution other than a fresh installation.
>
>-Hollis
I'm waiting for my YDL 2 discs to arrive and I'll be VERY careful in
upgrading!
Iain
on 31/5/01 12:49 am, Larry Blodgett at blodgett@telocity.com wrote:
> Will we be able to update to YDL 2 from 1.2.1????
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