No FC2 updates anymore in all repo's?

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 15:57 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 19:15 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > >On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 14:15 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>RedHat Linux distributions have always been designed to be upgradeable; 
> > >>right from the outset the RPM package manager had as one of its design 
> > >>goals the ability to easily upgrade everything. The "official" way of 
> > >>upgrading though is to use the anaconda installer on the CDs/DVD to do 
> > >>the upgrade. This is the way least likely to result in problems. 
> > >>Upgrading via yum/apt may also work, yum will not work without major effort.
> > >> but YMMV; anaconda is coded with 
> > >>knowledge of things that need to be done (e.g. on FC4 it will remove the 
> > >>i386 version of perl on x86_64 installs), information that isn't 
> > >>available to yum or apt.
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >Well, that's what I call broked design.
> > >
> > >Ralf
> > >  
> > >
> > I would be very interested in your solution to fix this particular issue 
> > any other way
> It's beyond my knowledge on this particular issue (IIRC, FC3 shipped
> i386 perl packages, while FC4 is going to be shipped with x86_64
> packages). Esp. I don't know x86_64's rpm/yum/apt are handling mixed
> architecture installations.
> 
> Anyway, for rpm, apt, yum and similar tools to work correctly, all such
> kind of information must be encoded into rpms. Therefore using anaconda
> to achieve an architecture switch for certain packages is a hack and
> violates rpm, yum, apt etc. working principles.
> 

Please explain that.  Anaconda is a different tool (distribution
installer) than yum, apt, rpm (package updater/installer).  I don't see
that as a hack at all.  The change occurs with anaconda during
installation and not on a daily basis.

> Ralf
> 
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