Re: [aurora-sparc-devel] Feedback wanted!
Silvio Macedo <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:55:56 +0100 (BST)
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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