Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

[Ingo Luetkebohle]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:30:34AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> mkkickstart is for cloning the same release; it does not cope well with 
> upgrades where packages get renamed, split up differently or otherwise 
> reoganised.

Exactly. Thats what rpm is for.

IMHO, implementing much more flexible rules for "requires", "obsoletes" and
the like is needed. Compare RPMs current mechanism to DEB-statements like:
        Package: samba-common
        Depends: some-package (>= 1.2.3) || some-other-package (>= 4.5.6)
        Replaces: samba

I'm not a fan of Debians package management in general (especially not the
way they split up related software), but information like the above is one
reason why upgrades are smoother: They simple *know*, in the package format,
that a package has been split up.

---Ingo Luetkebohle / 21st Century Digital Boy

its easy to stop using Perl: I do it after every project

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