On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:33:52PM -0700, nate wrote: > i haven't tried apt-get for rpm on redhat yet, but I tried it > on suse 7.3 about 4-5 months ago and was dissapointed in it. tried > to do some security updates, some completed fine then it errored > out and refused to continue(or provide any hints why it errored out). > I do have a really good redhat 7.3 box at my feet here which i could > try it out on, sounds interesting. I used RedHat a few years ago for about a month and rpm gave me such a headache that I bolted back to Debian. I am curious. How would one upgrade from V7 to V8.0 of RedHat? Is it a complete install requiring you purchase the entire CD set again or is there some sort of upgrade process and if there is, does it work well? I am awaiting a new ThinkPad and I'm in a bind. I know that the ThinkPad I am getting only works with XFree 4.2 which Debian doesn't yet support (at least in stable). Which means I'd have to point to another source list (who's address I forget). No real biggee. But what is, is IBM's support for only RPM. I work heavily with IBM's Websphere. On Linux that means you have to use rpm. You could try using alien but installing Websphere WITH rpm is enough of a nightmare; trying to resolve internal dependencies with alien is another I'd like to avoid. I might give RedHat 8 a try just for sh*ts and giggles but it really pains me to leave Debian. Justin. -- Justin F. Knotzke shampoo@shampoo.ca http://www.shampoo.ca
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