[ale] RedHat upgrade?

[gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Geoffrey Myers wrote:

> I just loaded RedHat to my laptop and was a bit impressed with how well
> it went.  Has anyone ever attempted to 'upgrade' a non RH Linux with the
> RedHat update option?  I have Slackware on my PC and would like consistency
> between the two boxes.

You can try it if you want, but it's not going to work unless the
non-RedHat linux system is also based on RPM (I've done it to a Caldera
system, for example).  The upgrade basically <simplification> does an "rpm
-Uvh *"</simplification>, thereby upgrading the whole system.  Obviously,
this depends on all the packages already there having been installed with
rpm.  If you really want them to be the same, back up the important stuff,
format, and install RedHat.  Once you do that, you'll be able to upgrade
them in place, thanks to RPM.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                   gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu

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