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RE: upgrading from redhat 5.0 to 5.1



There is s README on the RH5.1 CDROM which says partially what you want.
As to RPM
rpm -U --nodeps will ignore the dependencies. This leaves up to you to
check if there is a problem or not.

Yaniv Kimchi 
yaniv@zvia.org.il

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Yoram Birinboym wrote:

> hi
> 
> tnx for your answer. it is not a server it just studying computer.
> the problem is that i don't know with witch pack to start and 
> how to follow this path.
> if i do it with rpm command line most of the time it gives massages
> about dependencies of other packs, and i don't want to install 
> every thing just to satisfy it and don't tall me not to bover about
> space etc. after intalling some pack some of the things stop to work
> and i know witch pack to install to solve this.
> is there any doc file that give some info on all this...
> 
> yoram
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gal Goldschmidt [mailto:gal@eliashim.co.il]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 12:41 PM
> To: Yoram Birinboym
> Subject: RE: upgrading from redhat 5.0 to 5.1
> 
> 
> 
> On 02-Sep-98 Yoram Birinboym wrote:
> > hi to all,
> > 
> > does anyone know the best way to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1 ?
> > it is a confusing task...
> 
> I did it the messy way, without taking the server down, the only time our
> server is down is after kernel upgrades for a few minutes.
> 
> I upgrades all the packages starting from the libc, libXXX etc...
> Since 5.0 is already glibc, 5.1 is a maintenance release not something
> totally
> new as 5.0 was.
> 
> Upgrading from 4.2 to 5.1 will require using the boot CD for sure. 
> 
> If you care about uptime and it's a server, I think this is the best way.
> If it's a workstation and you don't care about uptime use the boot CD.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > yoram
> 
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> Date: 02-Sep-98
> Time: 13:32:44
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