[Wolves] Updating from RH8 to Fedora X (was remote update of pc)

[Alan Pope]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:28:55 +0000, James Turner <james at turnersoft.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 Feb 2005 00:23, Wayne Morris wrote:
> 
> > So do I update to FC1, 2 or 3 and more crucially will it break anything?
> >
> > I currently use it for
> > Web
> > Email (Exim)
> > Mysql/php
> 
> A feature I'd quite like to see in Fedora (etc) is the ability to specify that
> certain older packages are to be retained - such as the web, mail and
> database server in the example above - whilst the remainder of the distro can
> be upgraded as much as possible subject to dependency constraints. The point

This is easily done with Debian and Ubuntu - and any other system that
is based on dpkg/apt. You can put packages on hold for exactly this
reason.

Cheers,
Al.