On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:15 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > RedHat Linux distributions have always been designed to be upgradeable; > right from the outset the RPM package manager had as one of its design > goals the ability to easily upgrade everything. The "official" way of > upgrading though is to use the anaconda installer on the CDs/DVD to do > the upgrade. This is the way least likely to result in problems. > Upgrading via yum/apt may also work, yum will not work without major effort. > but YMMV; anaconda is coded with > knowledge of things that need to be done (e.g. on FC4 it will remove the > i386 version of perl on x86_64 installs), information that isn't > available to yum or apt. Well, that's what I call broked design. Ralf
