Re: [aurora-sparc-devel] Feedback wanted!

Silvio Macedo <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:55:56 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Ingo T. Storm wrote:
> > > - I need non-destructive, near-perfect upgrades from existing machines

> > This one is hard, I know, but, I've been compiling my SRPMs from RedHat
> > 7.2/7.3 tree for a long time and cannot go back now...

> I'd say that's virtually impossible... But not totally, as long as you've
> honoured RedHat dependencies in the SRPMs, as far as I can tell.
>
> Most probably your best bet will be to only rpm -Fvh the stuff that has been
> rebuil for aurora. But I suspect that the new glibc might break your neck
> somewhere...

roger
Thanks for the note of caution...

(i'm cc ing this to the list, as I think it may be relevant and was not
discussed, yet, reg 0.3)

Silvio

-- 
````````` Silvio Emanuel Nunes Barbosa de Macedo (PhD Student) '''''''''''
[email protected]                        http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/smacedo
Intelligent and Interactive Systems,EEE-Pg         Telecom. and Multimedia
Imperial College, University of London                         INESC Porto
Exhibition Road,                                       Pc da Republica, 93
London SW7 2BT, England                            4050-497 Porto Portugal
Tel:+44 20 75946323                                    Tel:+351  222094220