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Re: RH: is upgrade == bunch-of-rpms?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Moulder)
Mon Nov 25 03:15:28 1996

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From: Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au>
Date: 21 Nov 1996 11:06:42 +1100
In-Reply-To: Pedro Soria-Rodriguez's message of Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:14:45 -0500 (EST)
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Pedro Soria-Rodriguez <sorrodp@ece.WPI.EDU> writes:

> 	The subject says it all.  Is upgrading from 3.0.3 to 4.0 only
> a matter of installing the new PAM package, the new kernel and upgrading
> old packages?  Is there any behind the scenes functionality that I should
> perform if i want to do a manual upgrade?  (my bootdisk doesnt work..)
> 	Can i get a list off the cdrom with the order in which the
> packages are installed? 

I understand that although the official Red Hat response is `Don't Do
That!', you can still get away with it so long as you do it one (or
very few) package(s) at a time, and be a little careful.

pjm.


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