Re: system-config-packages - everything group

Nalin Dahyabhai <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.configuration
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:34:41PM -0500, Travis Abbott wrote:
> 	I'm trying to upgrade a whole bunch of RH9 boxes to FC2. It seems anaconda 
> won't install any new packages, it only updates existing packages it has 
> newer versions of. I'm trying to get these RH9 boxes to be as close to an 
> "everything" install of FC2 as possible. 
[snip]
>             What I'm wondering is whether or not there is an easy way to use 
> system-config-packages to update the system with "everything" on the 
> installation media, or is there another tool I should look into?

If you can perform the main part of the upgrade using anaconda, you can
then use 'up2date --show-package-dialog' to install anything that was
newly-added, and 'up2date --show-orphans' to find things which were
removed.

HTH,

Nalin


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