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On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 20:51, R Parker wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>--- Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>> I've upgraded from 1 to 2 on a few machines and it
> went quite smoothly.
> The planet packages may need a bit of cooercion to
> force an upgrade, I
> think I had to remove the -core package and install
> the new one.A</I></FONT></PRE>
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I have upgraded from RH8 -> RH9 -> FC1 -> FC2 all online without installing from scratch. In each case all I did was edit sources.list to point to the new repository and let a "apt-get dist-upgrade" do it's stuff. As Steve said some of the packages needed some help to force the upgrade. Usually the upgrade will get stuck on one or two packages then there is a little bit of work to track the dependencies back, remove and reinstall "problem" package and kick it off again. <BR>
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The RH8 to RH9 was the most painful upgrade. FC1 -> FC2 was really quite painless. Shows how the packages in general are maturing. Also for the record, the planet packages were the least troublesome.<BR>
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Lastly my $0.02: As a current FC2 user, if you are doing audio work stay on FC1 for the time being.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
Andrew<BR>
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