Using apt dist-upgrade

[Rahul Sundaram]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 19:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>Mark Haney wrote:
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>>>Is it easier now to use apt to upgrade the OS?  I'd really like to see 
>>>this become a lot easier in future versions of FC.  Has this been 
>>>worked on?
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>>Apt4RPM is unmainted by upstream developers who have switched to 
>>Smartpm(.org).
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>Wrong. apt4rpm is maintained (By Richard Bos and by me).
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>Apt-rpm has has less attention than before, because the principal apt-
>rpm maintainer is the author of smart. That does not mean apt-rpm is
>unmaintained. It's just that a person's focus has changed. 
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>He just has released a new release, a couple of weeks ago.
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I had that impression through previous discussions related to it in 
Fedora devel list and the fact the issues like multilib is/was there for 
a long time

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>> So Fedora development is going to concentrate on 
>>supporting a live upgrade, then yum is likely to be a better choice than 
>>apt.
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>True, except that yum has not yet reached a shape to be usable for "live updates".
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>Ralf
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I am not sure apt does it in Fedora either