[PlanetCCRMA] apt-get distro-upgrade

[Mark Knecht]

Carr,
   I do not think you can depend on the Planet to do a 'OS Upgrade'.
Only use the Planet to do upgrades of software at the same level you are
running today. IF you are on 7.3, then Fernando's work will keep your
7.3 distribution up to date.

   If you want 8.0, then you have to do that yourself and come back here
later to get the audio apps and new kernel.

   At least that's what I think Fernando has been saying.

Mark

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:28, Carr Wilkerson wrote:
> Ok.  Then the idea for an upgrade, as far as planetccrma is concerned, is 
> to install 8.0 over the 7.3 (preserving my home directory tree) and 
> re-configure apt-get, the kernel and alsa (et al) from scratch, right? 
> 
> Carr 
> 
> 
> On 18 Dec 2002, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> > > 	I looked for a thread on this but...  I was wondering if I 
> > > understood the apt-get distro upgrade...  Can I use this to upgrade from 
> > > 7.3 to RH 8.0?  Or do I need to download the images and install...
> > 
> > I would suggest you download 8.0 and install it. 
> > 
> > Upgrading through apt-get from (for example) 7.3 to 8.0 _might_ succeed.
> > I have never tried it. Once potential problem that comes to mind is that
> > the installer (a program called anaconda in RedHat) might be doing a lot
> > of tweaks in configuration files during an upgrade that a simple apt-get
> > dist-upgrade will not do. 
> > 
> > [hmmm, you will also need a lot of time _and_ disk space if the upgrade
> > is done over the net as apt-get will first download all packages]
> > 
> > -- Fernando
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Carr L. Wilkerson, Jr.
> Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
> http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~carrlane
> 
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