[Gllug] RH rpm upgrading

[Doug Winter]

On Fri 06 Jun James de Lurker wrote:
> Wed, 04 Jun 2003 18:07:34 +0100  Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> >At 16:36 04/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >>Rubbish. RPM can do all of that with various combinations of %doc, 
> >>%ghost,
> >>and pre- and post-install scripts.
> 
> Often impractical where a user might "jump" any number of intermediate
> release stages in the upgrade of an application. It is too expensive to
> consider and program for every eventuality in the spec file.

Debian manage it, for upgrades by two debian releases iirc, and they
don't even pay their developers :)

doug.

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