Re: use new apt to do null to RH8 upgrade? Once upon a time, Brian wrote : >     Yeah, I need to work this out, too; I just learned my lesson about >     living on the bleeding edge. Lesson learned?  NO MORE XIMIAN, UNDER >     ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.  Man, that was annoying. We all learned that sooner or later, right? When I got down to that myself is when I started redhat.aldil.org, now known as freshrpms.net ;-) >     Anyway, I have returned to Redhat 7.3 on my root filesystem (saved my >     home directories, music and games on other partitions) and while I >     have the 8.0 stuff in the list, everything I want to upgrade requires >     200+ RPMs. >  >     I'm not opposed to this, but apt is.  "apt-get dist-upgrade" dumps >     core. Strange. Anyway, although I'd easily recommend upgrading 7.x to 7.3 using apt, I wouldn't for 7.x to 8.0 as they are C++ binary incompatible... and apt is entirely written in C++ and dynamically linked :-/ Still, that doesn't explain a core dump :-( >     What's the inside secret here, or do I just start searching mirrors >     for the ISO and get over it? Why "search"? There's more than enough to choose from here : http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html Matthias --  Matthias Saou                                World Trade Center -------------                                Edificio Norte 4 Planta System and Network Engineer                  08039 Barcelona, Spain Electronic Group Interactive                 Phone : +34 936 00 23 23 _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list  http://lists.freshrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list