On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 14:37, Bob Shaffer wrote: > Alexander Dalloz said: > > Am Di, den 04.05.2004 schrieb Bob Shaffer um 15:40: > > > >> I've recently been investigating certain (I won't mention any names) > >> distributions which seem to have an endless life-cycle. With these > >> distributions, it seems that you can keep all of the software on your > >> system at the most current versions and avoid the process of upgrading > >> your entire O/S when new releases become available. This seems like the > >> only logical way of handling things to me. Is it possible to do this > >> with > >> Red Hat/Fedora or, if not, will this be something that will be possible > >> in > >> the future and when? > > > > If you say that other distributions - do you mean just Linux > > distributions or BSB distributions as well? - offer a special kind of > > upgrade path, whatever that should be, you should explain what you mean > > with that to be able to say whether that is possible with Fedora/Redhat > > in the same way. > > > > Either, upgrading is upgrading and always means to get your whole system > > to a higher state and not just updating applications. I do not know any > > Linux distribution that would have a different policy. > > > > So please feed us with details and names. > > > > Alexander > > > > > > -- > > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl > > Sirendipity 15:44:35 up 7 days, 14:33, load average: 1.94, 0.63, 0.42 > > [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ] > > my life is a planetarium - and you are the stars > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > I would really like to be able to run a command every month, week, or day > that would upgrade all of the software on my system. Regardless of what > piece of software or what kind of software it is, I would like to just be > able to upgrade it no questions asked and not have to wait until a new > "release version" becomes available and upgrade everything then. More > importantly, I think that the whole EOL thing is nonsense. Every program > that makes up everything in Linux is constantly being improved, having > security vulnerabilities corrected and bugs fixed, etc. Could I > conceivably be able to set it up yum, up2date, or something so that when > FC2/3/4/etc come out, I'm already running them, or am I doomed to always > have to upgrade only when the new versions are released? > > The one distribution that I've been looking at most recently and appears > to have this feature is "Gentoo Linux". It appears that one could install > their initial release, run a command something like "emerge world", and > soon be running a release more current then their last. The "releases" > they use are fairly meaningless in this sense - more like snapshots that > are made of the distribution at some interval. I'm wondering if this is > possible with Fedora and/or if it ever will be. > > I like Fedora, but I hate upgrading. I do way to much customisation with > my system for simply using the "upgrade" option in the installer for every > new release to be a realistic possibility. In the past I have tried this > and it ends up creating more work than just backing everything up and > doing a clean install followed by many hours or days of reconfiguration. > > What options do I have, if any, to accomplish anything similar to what I'm > talking about with Fedora Core? > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > Bob Shaffer II - Owner/Developer/System Operator - BobShaffersComputer.com > http://bobshafferscomputer.com/ telnet://bobshafferscomputer.com >From what I read upgrading to core 2 will be almost automatic with only some changes needed to the yum.conf. In fact I have done this to bring up my firewall/server from RH 8.0 and once yum was set up it was as painless as any other update. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
