update LinuxPPC from YDL RPMs?

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On 12/30/02, at 05:13 PM, "nathan r. hruby" <nathan@drama.uga.edu> said:

>Were you a brave soul with a good backup AND RESTORE device you might be able
>to shoehorn enough of the critical RPMS (rpm, *libc*, db*, XFree*, glib*,
>python*, kernel*, etc for starters) into your system from the CD to get it to
>boot with a YDL kernel (and libs) and then use apt to finsh the upgrade.

Speaking of dumb, what do you think would happen if he installed apt, and told it to go for it? That's how I upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3.

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