Can't upgrade FC1
Gordon R. Keehn
gordonkeehn at netzero.net
Fri Feb 20 14:15:52 UTC 2004
Try synaptic. IMHO it's got a better interface than up2date, and
I've *never* had a problem with it. One of the things I really like is
that I can remove and install packages at the same time, through a very
nice GUI. This lets me (for example) install a new kernel update and
remove the generation -2 kernel in the same process. Using up2date, I
had to manually remove old kernel versions periodically, or run out of
space. I don't believe it automatically downloads and installs kernel
upgrades (although this may be an option; see next paragraph) but it's
so easy to search for new versions and request them manually that I
haven't found this to be an issue.
By default synaptic maps a reasonable list of archives, and I've
never had significant performance problems. Adding or removing archives
is a snap, through a GUI dialog. I haven't tried playing with options,
beyond adding an archive to pick up the latest wine distributions, so I
can't comment on how far from the defaults it's possible to go. Like
up2date, packages are downloaded to a directory under /var. I've
mounted (smbfs) a directory on my Win2K server (which has a cd burner)
at this point, so packages are downloaded directly to (and installed
from) a hard drive on the server. Once a month or so I can offload the
whole batch to CD to free up space.
The bottom line is that I would never voluntarily switch back to
up2date.
Cheers,
Gordon Keehn
Michael Kearey wrote:
> Mike Adolf wrote:
>
>> Tried to upgrade FC1 to latest release, but...
>>
>> up2date says core is up to date but uname -r = 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl,
>> which is old.
>>
>
> I am not completely sure about your particular problem.. However many
> problems with up2date can be solved by setting up to use a mirror that
> is up to the task of serving thousands..
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg01577.html
>
> Alternatives to up2date exist, like yum and apt-get for rpm. See
> http://fedora.artoo.net for lots of good info.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
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