[ILUG] updating whitebox linux

[David O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:47, John P. Looney wrote:
>  How do you do this ? Are there up2date or apt repositories for this ?

There maybe problems going from release candidate 1 to final, but after
that it's intended that packages are made available through a yum
repository.

David

>From the whitebox-users mailing list
(see http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users):

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:12:12AM +0100, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:09:55PM -0500, David Gonzalez Romero wrote:
> > Well i have the cdrom WBEL 3.0 finall, but in my computer i have
WBEL 
> > 3.0rc1... i need to know if possible the upgrade to WBEL 3.0 use my
cdrom 
> > with YUM or any other tools?
> 
> yum is almost unusable as packages has mostly the same version in RC1
> and final.
> 
> One solution is to compare RPM packages from RC1 and final and use 
> "rpm -Uvh --force package" to replace changed packages.

But previously, from the main whitebox maintainer:

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:04, John Morris wrote: 
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> 
> > > In theory you should be able to just install yum, put in the 3.0 
> > > repository and go.  But a few packages have the same version number 
> > > because they had minor build problems and I didn't bump the version or 
> > > fork out a WB version number.
> > 
> > Seems like untrackable source change. Not so good...
> 
> Ya, normally that would suck, but the RC releases were never intended to
> have a long service life and hopefully were mostly installed by folks who
> can cope with the slight bogosity involved in the upgrade to -final; and I
> really didn't want to bump versions on those packages and have to cope
> with that many more -WB packages.  This way the number of packages people
> have to examine for changes is much smaller.