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[ILUG] apt-get dist-upgrade kills FC3 server

[ILUG] apt-get dist-upgrade kills FC3 server

Conor Daly conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 1 12:56:02 GMT 2006


On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:38:36AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Timothy Murphy thought:
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 10:35, Conor Daly wrote:
> > Running an FC3 mail and web server.  did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and the
> > following happened:
> 
> Wouldn't it be simpler to use the FC upgrade program "yum" ?

Last I looked, yum used rpm's --force switch which was considered a bad
thing.  Apt doesn't do such a thing so I use apt.  Maybe yum has been
fixed since...

Conor
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