RE: Live Upgrade for Linux

From: Frederik Rousseau (fred@cmelectronics.be)
Date: 03/27/03

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    From: "Frederik Rousseau" <fred@cmelectronics.be>
To: <focus-linux@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:22:39 +0100

    > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 14:42, Seth Arnold wrote:

    > > Mandrake has something, but I can't recall its name. upnrm or something.

    The Mandrake update tool is urpmi.

    1. You need a urpmi source to update, `urpmi.addmedia update_pkgs_mdk91
    http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS with
    ../base/hdlist.cz` to update your Mandrake 9.1 box.
    2. Every time you want to update your box, `urpmi.update update_pkgs_mdk91`
    to download the latest packages list.
    3. `urpmi --auto-select` downloads and installs the updates nicely ...

    If somebody has some experience with "Life Upgrade" using urpmi, please
    contact me. I find it interesting to upgrade a mandrake 9.0 to a 9.1 without
    doing a reboot ... It's kind of a Debian dream :)

    Fred

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