20 Jan
2004
20 Jan
'04
1:51 p.m.
tim hall wrote:
Hi Greg,
On Monday 19 January 2004 3:30 pm, Greg Reddin wrote:
For what it's worth... I use YUM instead of apt
and I LOVE IT! It is the easiest way to upgrade.
Try it out. I've not tried downgrading though.
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What about Agnula? How do you upgrade
individual packages? How do you back out the upgrade if there's a
problem? Do you manage a separate "test" environment to keep from
bringing down your DAW?
I'm using Agnula on a double-booted system. I've got Woody/DeMuDi-1.0 on hda
and Sarge/DeMuDi-1.1.0 on hdb I've set up chroots in both directions so I can
access the one while booted into the other. It works for me.
You'd probably want to track the Agnua/unstable packages - they do maintain
ReHMuDi packages too, which I imagine you can install on top of Red Hat same
as Debian. You may even be able to use apt, I don't know.
I'm actually using synaptic as a package manager ATM and apart from a couple
of niggles it works well. I can't imagine running a system which didn't have
apt - It is super-cool IMHO and extremely well documented, such that I'm able
to run insane mixed systems side by side with relative ease. I'd say it was
easier to configure and run than, say kmail. I'm still a relative newbie, so
experience may show me the pitfalls, but I haven't seen them yet. I guess
backing out of upgrades is tricky to say the least, these tools weren't
really designed to go backwards. Apt-pinning works for packages in most
cases.