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

[Graham Leggett]

Shawn Coomey wrote:

> I guess what it comes down to is that I just want to know if there is 
> any reasonable, logical way of upgrading a system that has RPM's as well 
> as source-compiled apps installed as well... without the pain. :)

Do it by hand, and use the -F option.

I upgraded a v2.1 to a v2.2 by going through the RPMs in batches, then 
deleting them as I went along. As you go along, certain key packages 
will have a lot of dependancies, but as you work through the 
dependancies you'll eventually solve them all.

The lazy way of doing it though is to simply change to the directory on 
the CD with all the RPMs in it and type rpm -F *.rpm. This will update 
all the RPMs you have installed on the system, ignoring the rpms you 
don't have installed. If it throws any dependancy warnings just fix 
those warnings by hand until they are gone, and run rpm -F again. When 
rpm doesn;t complain, then everything is done.

Regards,
Graham
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