14 Nov
2006
14 Nov
'06
11:39 p.m.
Brad Fuller wrote:
Forest Bond wrote:
apt-get, Synaptic, etc all handle distro updates, too. Even kernels.
I've updated kernels a couple of times using Synaptic.
I guess you could say that Debian, in a sense, really doesn't have the
RH/Fedora idea of "upgrades."
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David
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On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:30:11PM -0800, Brad
Fuller wrote:
Upgrading applications is easy as pie on Fedora, as long as you get the
right repos. I use Smart Manager and it's very nice, once you get it setup.
My concern is not applications, but the distro itself. every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually
get around to moving to
the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because
you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading"
Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't.
Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems
unnecessary.
I don't know why people tolerate this sort of thing. Debian and Ubuntu
have
_always_ upgraded well for me. These are projects that recognize that one of
the most important (if not _the_ most important) responsibilty of a distribution
is dependency management, including versioned dependencies through upgrades.
I recently started maintaining a RHEL server at work, and up2date is one of the
crudest tools I've ever seen. It just barely does anything right at all.
I guess I've just been spoiled by apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, update-manager,
et. al... (And the package maintainers for the above-mentioned projects --
package managers need good data to do their jobs well).