From: Roland Moriz (roland_at_moriz.de)
Date: Sat 28 Jun 2003 - 21:55:49 BST
Hi,
Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 16.13 schrieb Christian Mayrhuber:
> Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2003 15:07 schrieb ComplexMind:
> from a upgradeability point of view Debian is really excellent. You can upgrade
> from an older Debian version to a newer one with two commands:
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> This usually does not break anything. At least, it never broke something on my machines.
>
[...]
I'm currently running SuSE 8.2 vservers on a SuSE 8.0 host machine
(legacy because i prefer debian). To have the neat ways of updating your
system with apt-get, you can install apt-get together with rpm on Redhat
and SuSE (SuSE: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ , Redhat:
http://freshrpms.net/)
All my vservers do have this configuration which allows me to have a
very minimal skeleton as a good base to upgrade:
vse0002:/ # cat /etc/SuSE-release
SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586)
VERSION = 8.2
vse0002:/ # apt-get install irssi
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
glib2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
glib2 irssi
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1107kB of archives.
After unpacking 3569kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 ftp://suse.privmirror.xy SuSE/8.2-i386/base glib2 2.2.1-18 [385kB]
Get:2 ftp://suse.privmirror.xy SuSE/8.2-i386/base irssi 0.8.6-34 [722kB]
Fetched 1107kB in 0s (2065kB/s)
Executing RPM (-Uvh)...
glib2
##################################################
irssi
##################################################
vse0002:/ #
done :)
My recommendation:
- If you want to setup a new system: use Debian's Sarge Release aka
Testing because it's a compromise of stable (stable, old) and unstable
(bleeding edge)
- If not: try apt-get for your rpm based distribution.
hth.
with kind regards,
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Roland Moriz
-- Muenchen/Germany - http://www.roland-moriz.de/