[4583] in testers
Re: A note on bleeding machines and the alpha release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Apr 14 18:51:41 2001
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 18:51:35 -0400
Message-Id: <200104142251.SAA05385@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: testers@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200104141930.PAA03154@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
> You'll need to force-install athena-rpmupdate-8.4-24.i386.rpm (with
> --oldpackage) before the update to 9.0 will work. As far as I know,
> that should be the only problem, though I haven't personally tried
> it.
Oops, I'm sorry, this won't work at all, and is likely to mess up the
RPM database on the machine.
The simplest thing to do, although it's a bit slow, is to downgrade to
8.4.24 before upgrading to 9.0.
