Re: [TCLUG:15263] Reading Red Hat rpms vs deb

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> What if you install acroread before netscape?

http://packages.debian.org/acroread

netscape is *suggested* as a good possibility to be installed.  It also
recommends that you have netscape installed.

Really, all that happens is that acroread sticks its plugin in a lib
directory that all the .debs keep netscape plugins in.

Then when you install netscape, they happen to be there and work.

> Without rebooting? Then you'd have something. Otherwise RedHat does it.

Yes.  Full in-place upgrades.  If you upgrade a kernel, no.  But lets say
I want to add some things and go from glibc2 to glibc2.1, without thinking
about more than an apt-get dist-upgrade.

> Redhat will let you choose which packages to upgrade during a dist
> upgrade.

Redhat doesn't do this from a command line interface in place while the os
is running and grabbing the packages that you might need to support that
'unstable' package.

Or perhaps I am wrong.

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