| Events |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Services |
|
|
|
|
| Interact |
|
|
| -
|
| -
|
|
|
|
|
| About Us |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Re: [vox-tech] upgrading Mandrake packages only
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [vox-tech] upgrading Mandrake packages only
--On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 12:44:00 -0500 "Aaron A. King"
<king@tiem.utk.edu> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm running Mandrake 9.1 on a few computers. Being security-minded, I
try to keep up with software security updates conscientiously. This
is fairly easy using Mandrake's RPM-based update tools (urpmi and
gurmpi).
The problem is, Mandrake has already released 9.2 and will eventually
stop updating the 9.1 mirrors. In the past, when this has happened, I
have done a clean install. This is inevitably a very painful process.
It can take up to a week of tinkering before I get all my machines
working again according to my preferences. Trying to upgrade from the
ISOs usually doesn't work well, in my experience.
So I'm considering trying to update packages only. It seems I can
fairly easily tell urpmi to look at the 9.2 mirror instead of the 9.1.
Presumably, I would then be able to upgrade all individual RPM
packages and keep up with updates.
As it happens, I upgraded my home system from mandrake 9.0 to 9.2 this
weekend. I just booted off the first CD and told it to upgrade my system.
I didn't do a perfect job, so afterwards I spent a few hours manually
removing old RPMs and installing additional packages, but it was pretty
straightforward work.
I ran the command:
rpm -q -a --queryformat '%{NAME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:day}\n'
which lists every installed RPM along with its install date, then
inspected everything that was "old". Some of them were packages I'd
independently installed, others were leftovers that hadn't been upgraded
properly. For example, my old system had automake 1.6 installed; the new
OS supplies automake 1.7, but it's not marked as replacing 1.6 so rpm
thought the two packages conflicted. Similarly, it installed the latest
copy of apache 1.3.x (along with addons like mod_perl) instead of
replacing it with apache 2.x and its addons.
--
"Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson Airplane, which cleared
the way for Jefferson Starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons
Project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft." - Homer Simpson
Kenneth Herron Kherron@newsguy.com 916-366-7338
_______________________________________________
vox-tech mailing list
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
|
|
