Upgrade to 3.0

[Tommy Randall]

What are these redcarpet and up2date?  Are these apps that will allow us to
update to kde without all the dependency headaches?  After trying
KDE2.1->3.0->2.2.2->2.1->2.2.2 with no luck (well, the 2.1's work, but I'd
prefer to have at least 2.2.2)... I'm ready for something easier! :)

Tommy

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From: kde-admin at mail.kde.org [mailto:kde-admin at mail.kde.org]On Behalf Of
P. Fleury
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 9:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [kde] Upgrade to 3.0




Tom Achtenberg wrote:

>There are over 100 packages, there has to be a better way to upgrade.
>
Well, that's the usual trade-off: you want an easy well-prepared way to
do it, wait for the ditributor to put the RPMs into their upgrade kits
(redcarpet, up2date, etc). Then, it's one single action.

If you want access earlier, find the RPMs and do the upgrade "by-hand".
But then, (maybe I overlook the tool) rpm only reports about the missing
packages, and you have to fetch them by hand. Then again, this might
break some other dependencies, so you'll have to upgrade other things
you did not plan, etc. On RedHat, as they build their RPMs for the next
version (named RawHide until publicly announced), it might easily become
a headache.
And if you do not want to break your system, never use '--force', just
try to understand the error message :-)

There is always the source distribution, very fresh and on the
bleeding-edge, but you have to compile it and install it yourself. Which
I use until the official RPMs are out, it's less of a headache and does
not break my system. Even including the 16 hours of compilation...

And also, there are over 100 packages in the way RedHat has packaged it,
as they seem to have a package per application. The original KDE
distribution has about 12 packages with many applications in each.

As time is money, even in the free-software world convenience has a cost :-)

>


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