Thats funny, I was just talking to a debian guy that I know. He was telling me about apt-get. I will be sure to check it out. <OT> I personally use Gentoo's emerge system. It seems to be somewhat of a cross between the BSD ports system and yum/apt-get/red-carpet. It really provides all of the update/upgrade functionality I need (well mostly). The only bad thing about it for managing multiple systems is that it is source-based, and it maintains a local package list (portage) on each system. Though I can usually make them work with Gentoo, most of the 3rd party apps/vendors I use will not support Gentoo. In any case, as far as RPM distros I have been extremely happy with RedHat/Fedora Core. </OT> Again, Thank you for you input. BAK <disclaimer> I've never tried this but... </disclaimer> Apt-get is a package management tool that has been ported from debian. I use it for updating my system. It has an option called "dist-upgrade". This intelligently handles dependencies so that one can upgrade from one release to another. To go about this you would need to install the apt rpm from fedora.us or similar site for your current release (FC1). You then need to configure the sources.list file and/or contents or the sources.list.d directory to only have the core and possibly the update directories for the desired release (FC2). You then run as root "apt-get update" to update the sources and "apt-get dist-upgrade" to update your system to current. I remember seeing some posts on this list from people who did this successfully. However, you might want to ask on this list (perhaps in a new thread) to get some feedback first. Especially if these are critical systems. I hope that this is more like what you're looking for.
