On Wednesday 31 May 2006 00:34, Oded Arbel wrote: > Funny. upgrading between different brands of the same company works in > every other Linux I've used - SLE<->NLD<->SuSE, Ubuntu<->Kubuntu, > Mandriva<->NMS<->Corporate
Stop thinking of Fedora as RedHat. > I can see plenty of reasons to change RHEL to Fedora - only one of them > is the fact that RHEL uses outdated software. s/outdated/stable/g > That's the gist of it - I don't want to do a full upgrade. I want to > update select packages, but keep the basic system. Problem is - RedHat > (unlike other OS vendors) don't like that, so - for example - you can't > install two different major versions of the same library (like readline > 4 and readline 5) unless there's "compat" package (and even then its a > problem, because yum prefers to update 40 packages depending on the old > version instead of simply installing the "compat" version). Redhat package management system is unfortunately not on par with other package systems from other Linux vendors (see: apt). --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
