[Lilux-help] Slackware upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1

[Patrick Kaell]

Eric Dondelinger wrote:

> You really want to have a look at Debian and apt.
> 
> It is the first system I've encountered where I *don't* fear
> updates and actually (well, most of the time anyway) don't get
> nasty surprises - especially on the stable version (unstable
> moves a lot and does have surprises, testing moves and has
> surprises only sometimes - like the upgrade from KDE 3.2 to
> 3.3 which did mess some things up for a while, i.e. uninstalls
> 3.2 on one run, and installs 3.3 only during one of the consequent
> runs).

It is a shame that there is a major distro (even a completely free one), 
that I didn't give a serious try. I should definitely do that. I already 
use apt-get with fink on MacOSX (which basically is a Debian package 
system adapted to MacOSX with many Debian packages precompiled for 
MacOSX). apt-get gave me a positive impression of Debian. The major 
reason why I didn't try Debian extensively was the fact that I was put 
off by dselect some while ago...

> With any RPM-based distro, I've had really nasty stuff happening
> with upgrades (changing distro version number, not securtiy
> updates)

I imagine that updating SuSE manually may not be an easy task. I once 
tried to install a minimal SuSE by removing all RPMs I could. At the end 
there were still over 100 packages left which I couldn't remove because 
of dependencies issues (even cyclic ones). Upgrading RPMs step-by-step 
without breaking dependencies my be difficult.

Greetings, Patrick Kaell