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Re: RPM upgrade script




>The only *right* way to do an upgrade is FreeBSD way to do it :{)
Well, from speaking with various FreeBSD people I tend to think they are a
bit over-religious along the line of "only right way". There is no only
right way, people, and never was, and never will be... Not in OSes, not in
anything other.

>You need to sync with FreeBSD CVS sourve tree over internet ( you can also
>check out FreeBSD as it was for any date you want - not only the latest
>one  or releases ) And then you rebuild the *whole* OS and not only kernel
>with one make.
Well, it might be a bit more than what I need, when I want to rebuild only
the kernel... Though, the idea of central repository is not bad...
Recenlty, I use redhat as such. 
>
><UNIX_WAY>
Childish...
>This is the Unix way to do things!
>/usr/src# make update; make world
Well, IMHO not very different of "Click on the "Make WORLD" button"...
Just typing instead of clicking...
>
>With Red Hat we got sys admins that can not add user/change interface's IP
>without X Window and RH control-panel.
Well, that is not ReHat's fault. GUI is not bad or good, the wannabee
admins that cannot live without GUI are bad.

>>From other hand gurus do not need to remember 'which libc goes with which
>kernel" and  "why can not I find standart header files"
Because you failed to RTFM...

>I saw lot Linuces  with broken c compiler and sendmail dated before I
>was born. System are not consistent because you can not update the whole
>system - you can only update RPM packages.
And I saw Solaris with sendmail of ages and which need megs of patches to
be downloaded and installed before it will run good... So what?
Every system may be misconfigured in bad way... And in even worse way...
And then again...

>Unix user needs to know how to use make and does not need to know
>what depend on what binutils on libc or the other way around.
Who are you to determine what *I* need and need not to know??? Here was I
thinking only I can determine this...

>A lot of systems migrated from Linux to FreeBSD! 
Oh, maybe you need to go to some advocacy newsgroup and not try to start
a religious war here? Just stop to be childish...

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