On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> Just my 0.02$;
>
> I think Red Hat Linux definitely needs some tools to upgrade a live
> system. The main reason for this is that you can do it remotely. I can't
> see anything more annoying than having to walk through every Linux
> workstation / server here and perform the upgrade w/ CD-ROM / bootdisk,
> when I just as well could do it via SSH.
>
> Compare this with the upgradeibility (is that a word? :) of FreeBSD
> (cvsup, make world), and Linux has still ways to go. :-/
>
Actually, Debian does allow for an easy upgrade of the whole distro. I
only used it once so far, but it was as impressive as the BSD system.
> Actually, in Pinstripe, you _could_ do 'anaconda --method upgrade', but
> it'll die:
>
> you're running me on a live system! that's incredibly stupid.
So, anaconda will perform the same kind of function that up2date was
created for in the first place? Any idea what "live system" means in that
case? I mean, is it supposed to be run in single user mode only or what?
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