Re: apt and upgrades

[Chris Ricker <kaboom gatech edu>]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Ali-Reza Anghaie wrote:

> > My other question is if there is no longer going to be boxed CDs for
> > sale perhaps it might be possible in the future for upgrading between
> > versions to work in a way that doesn't require CDs?
> 
> People do upgrades w/ apt and yum today that way. Various levels of success 
> are reported.
> 
> Who knows what'll be integrated into the RHLP at this point but it's worth 
> considering IMO. Although I'd like to see whatever gets integrated be 
> vertical enough that it can practically be used in the RHEL offerings..

RHN can also be used for OS upgrades....

up2date --upgrade-to-release=foo

later,
chris