Yup, I know, just letting you know so I don't forget. B Scott Silva wrote: > Rodrigo Barbosa spake the following on 4/17/2007 12:00 PM: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:55:24PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >>> On 4/17/07, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at darkover.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm working on a formula to enable a clean upgrade from 4.4 to 5.0. >>>> Unfortunately, not only we have a big glibc upgrade on our way, we >>>> also have some nasty package fragmentation. The best exemple >>>> is xorg-x11-libs, which was separated in several (10+, perhaps) >>>> packages. >>>> >>>> So far, I think the best plan is to create meta packages to solve >>>> this dependency hell. Lets call it meta-4.4to5.0-upgrade.noarch.rpm. >>>> This package should provide and requires the needed components. >>>> >>>> Unfortunatelly, this will probably change from system to system, >>>> which can become very nasty. In that case, we have two ways to procede: >>>> >>>> 1) A script that will create a package specific for that given >>>> system >>>> 2) Several meta packages >>>> >>>> I'm kind of leaning toward the second option, with a super meta >>>> package that will require them all (in case someone want to >>>> make things simples at the cost of installing extra packages). >>>> >>>> Comments ? Suggestions ? >>>> >>> Are you looking for something otehr than anaconda for small memory or >>> something? I do not see live updates working for the faint of heart >>> from 4.4 -> 5.0 . >>> >> Nah, mostly remote systems, hosted on datacenters or somewhere else. >> >> So far, the main problem I've encontered is really xorg. Go figure. >> >> []s >> >> > You can do remote anaconda installs using vnc. I have done it once or twice. > Now if you could do remote ssh based text installs, that would really rock! >