From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain alphyra.ie)
Date: Sun 30 Sep 2001 - 15:53:10 IST
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Liam Bedford wrote:
> and the debian'ers would be very quickly running around with basic guns the
> installer gave them, and apt-get installing the latest greatest (after the
> obligatory apt-get dist-upgrade unstable && apt-get upgrade, and clearing
> out the cruft).
hee heee:
[root at domain dunlop /etc]# rpm -q redhat-release
redhat-release-7.0-1
[root at domain dunlop /etc]# apt-get update
Hit http://apt.dub.ie.alphyra.com alphyra/base/pkglist.test
Ign http://apt.dub.ie.alphyra.com alphyra release.test
Processing File Dependencies... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
http://apt.dub.ie.alphyra.com/ will not be authenticated.
[root at domain dunlop /etc]# apt-get upgrade
Processing File Dependencies... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
[snip]
The following packages will be upgraded
[snip]
391 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not
upgraded.
Need to get 298MB of archives. After unpacking 41.4MB will be used.
Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ to
hold all packages.
very fine tool alright from what i've seen.
only thing that isn't perfect is the '.rpmnew' config file thing. but
that's rpm, and i guess you have to live with it. (and iirc .deb
packages dont solve this problem either).
> L.
--paulj
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