Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Re: [BLUG] newbee

> These were packages shipped with Ubuntu or external packages?

Everything from Ubuntu CD (and its repository.) Never got far enough to
need external packages. :-)

BTW, I have upgraded many Red Hat systems (from non-RHEL era to RHEL as
well) many many times. I did run into trouble couple times (mostly
caused by third party RPMs.) But with so many upgrades been done, the
number is pretty minor. I have not tried to upgrade on a live system
(although in theory it's no more different than applying patches for,
say, kernel or glibc.) So it's definitely doable. But most vendors
won't recommend doing upgrade for liability reason.

Cheers,
Shing-Shong

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