[wplug] Several questions

[Mark Sikora]

The slackware upgrade can be sweet, cause of course, it makes you do all the
config changes yourself!

;)

Not for the feint of heart, but slackware also does tweak the kernel so much
either.

The painless upgrade that some distros advertise is alluring, but in my
experience and from what I hear....not that often successful.

Thoughts?


On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Weber, Lawrence A <laweber at switch.com>
> wrote:
> > I am finding that my choice of Linux distribution is not always mine to
> > make.  The tools suppliers will not test on all distros so they pick one
> > or two.  They offer only support when their tool is installed on those
> > tested.  As is I still need to transfer zImage to a windows PC to
> > download to the target systems.
>
> Everybody has their own favorite distribution, and they each have
> their own reasons why its their favorite.
>
> You'll find Redhat / CentOS / Fedora are all fine.
>
> One thing you may want to look into is the man page for the rpm
> command.  You can do:
>
> rpm -qif /usr/src/kernels/2.6.27.9-xyz
>
> and it will tell you which package owns that directory or file.  That
> might help you to figure out what is left over from FC6 and can be
> removed.  Then, use rpm to remove that package from your system.
>
> Also, you can use yum for many of the things that rpm does.  (yum is
> almost like a front-end for rpm).  yum can also query packages in
> remote repositories, install them, and resolve dependencies.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Mike
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