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Richard Turner wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:17 +0000, Huw Lynes wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:11:46 +0000
Richard Turner <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:richard@zygous.co.uk"><richard@zygous.co.uk></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">So, even given that I'm not a base-level desktop user, I'm still not
sure what Debian would provide for me that other distros won't. The one
thing I can think of is that I could install it, spend ages making sure
that services like netfilter, ntp, etc. are configured OK (the kind of
thing that SuSe or FC installers do for you) and then not have to bother
ever again because I could do 'apt-get dist upgrade' instead of having
to reinstall when a new release comes along. This might be enough for
me, so I may try Debian, but it's not a convincing enough argument for
me to be totally swayed.
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<pre wrap="">On RH/FC
yum -y update
is your friend.
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Oh yeah, I know, but I'm not quite brave enough to trust a dist upgrade
to yum, or indeed apt4rpm. I've seen a HOWTO somewhere on reconfiguring
one's yum.conf file in FC2 to point to FC3 repos and then using yum to
dist upgrade, but I didn't fancy it.
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I have tried yum on our _old_ RedHat machines too -- not the same. On
debian I can use aptitude to go through different upgrade scenarios
before I do them... This means that on a well configure debian system
you can look at different versions of packages and find a combination
that doesnt break dependencies. Also in terms of how quick you can do
this yum was disapointing (probably my mistake) and looking for
documentation for yum is quite adventorous...<br>
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my 2p<br>
mimo<br>
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