[wplug] Managing updates

[R.E.Coutch]

Which distro?

You can keep an OpenSuSE system running for a long time by switching to the smart updater as opposed to the openSuSE updater.


>From: "Weber, Lawrence A" <laweber at switch.com>
>Date: 2008/05/07 Wed AM 11:13:35 CDT
>To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
>Subject: [wplug] Managing updates

>Managing updates
>One of my biggest problems with maintaining my Linux systems is associated with updating an application.  I heavily rely on the built in update manager for most updates but they seem to stop finding updates when a system get to be a couple of versions old. 
>I find I have to manually update many of the very low level applications; yesterday it was gcc.  After resolving some version dependencies with other components, I  successfully compiled the new version and installed it in the default location, /usr/local.  
>I did this so I could test the new version without destroying my older version.  Now that it works, how do I go about moving it to /bin?  There are numerous components and I am concerned that a manual move will miss something.  Is my only option to rebuild it with --prefix set to /bin?  I could leave it in /usr/local but then how do I remove ALL of the old version?
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>Lawrence A. Weber
>Consulting Engineer
>ANSALDO STS
>Union Switch & Signal
>1000 Technology Drive
>Pittsburgh, PA  15219-3120
>Ph: 412-688-2319
>Email:  laweber at switch.com
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