Re: [SLUG] apt-rpm looks great (was: [Re: Which XFree86 is Applicable for RedHat 7.1 ?])

[Mike MacCana <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 00:21, Jeff Allison wrote:
> lukekendall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I didn't know that!
> >
> > # rpm -qa | grep raidtools
> > raidtools-0.90-24
> > raidtools-0.90-23

You can erase one or both of these packages. man rpm.

> > I hate to think what it'll say when it sees what my (working) XFree86
> > package is like, due to misuse of rpm during an upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2:

apt-get install -f 
will fix a broken system.

> Has anyone tried to upgrade a version ie 7.2 --> 7.3 using apt-rpm if it works it may fix the 12 month lifespan of RedHats.

Its possible, people have done it before.
But personally I'd rather just do an upgrade, and I don't see what there
is to `fix'. An hour or two scheduled maintenance once a year isn't a
big deal for me. Remember, Red Hat aim to keep binary compatibility
within major version numbers, so 7.x - 7.(x+1) is, in my brain,
equivalent to a service pack in the windows world. And, or course, what
you're upgrading to is stable with much testing, fixing and (these days)
three beta releases before its declared so.

Mike