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robert@zen.humbug.org.au wrote:
: The problem with rpm is that it doesn't like doing on the fly upgrades.
: You are supposed to drop to single user mode to upgrade rpm packages.
: RPM will break your systemif u try on the fly upgrades of some important
: packages, like say RPM.  These comments are valid in RedHat 4.1 the
: last one i used, and RPM might be better now (as I mentiond before, I have
: heard a rumour that RH are making a package to allow on the fly upgrades).

'Scuse me? I've upgraded RPM, libc, gcc, X and a whole bunch of other packages
on the fly with not a hint of a problem.

The full new releases still want you to boot from install/upgrade disks but
it's perfectly possible to upgrade everything from the packages, as long as
you're careful about it.

The only problems come when they reorganise their packages so that replacing
a package with one of the same name is not quite enough, the problem is not
in RPM itself. As I said, you can avoid these problems if you're careful.
I've done this a couple of times on systems that didn't like the RH boot
disks.

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