MJ Ray wrote:
Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk writes:
does Debian (apt) check for changes before it upgrades ??
Yes, and it offers you choices including replace, keep and diff.
aahh.. okies.. well the latest version of rpm keep the old copies of any config files, they are moved to *.rpmnew or *.rpmsave depending on wether it's new or saved ;).. this has only happened in the latest version of rpm, from about RH 6.1 onwards I think...
It seems as if the package management tools are beginning to asorb each others features ;)..
download the ISO's, insert CD, and select upgrade ;)... there have been
Is there any "smarter" way than downloading ISOs? I hate doing that as it ties a machine up for hours by saturating its network connection.
well.. it's possible to do a network upgrade from a ftp/http/nfs server if you want to give that a try, either way you will still need to use a large quantify of bandwidth to get the files from a remote server to your machine...
Neill
-- MJR