RPM's or source? (was: Can I upgrade with RPMs?)

[John Nelson]

Actually, I tried wiping the drives to install fresh and still ended up 
with problems.  But I have to agree that the UPGRADE path, not a total 
reinstall is the prefered way of handling these things.

-- John


Shawn Coomey wrote:
> This actually brings up a larger issue (at least in my pea brain) about 
> Linux in general, I think. I pose the following question for you Linux 
> gurus out there:
> 
> On my system, I have MANY pieces of software installed that I compiled 
> from source (not RPM'd or apt-get'ted). I know many folks, especially in 
> the YDL world do the same thing due to the relative dirth of PPC RPM's 
> out there. Back a few months ago, I wanted to upgrade to 2.2, so I 
> basically wiped the drives and started fresh. That was OK for then, as I 
> didn't have much necessary data to save. What if I had tons of critical 
> data and a clean wipe and install wasn't an option?
> 
> Philosophically speaking and from an OS upgrade standpoint, is the use 
> of RPM's an all-or-nothing prospect?
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:53:40 -0400
>  R Shapiro <rshapiro@bbn.com> wrote:
> 
>> John Nelson writes:
>>  > I tried to upgrade my YDL 2.1 system using the instructions on the 
>> YDL web
>>  > site and the result was a total disaster.
>>
>> This is pretty hopeless.  I tried this and eventually gave up and
>> reinstalled 2.1 (the 2.2 installer doesn't work on my Quicksilver
>> 867).
> 
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