Upgrading

[Mats Wichmann]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:14:44 +0200, "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it>
wrote:

:"Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams" <ignacio at openservices.net> wrote in message
:news:mailman.999827168.15038.python-list at python.org...
:    ...
:> You can't just grab the RPMs that contain those files; they will have
:their
:> own dependencies. You need to do this step by step or you will end up
:beating
:> your head against the wall.
:
:Or take ONE little step, move to Mandrake and urpmi, and save
:much damage (to your head and/or to the wall, depending on
:relative hardness thereof...)?-)  <ducks rapidly away, hoping
:to have sparked a nice flamewar among fans of various rpm-based
:distros vs debianists vs slackwarists vs rebuild-everything-from-
:sources-always purists vs ...>

Well, Alex, I'm a Mandrake fan and my head still has dents (I built
those walls myself, perhaps I should have hired an ordinary contractor
to save my head...)

These days I take /one/ flyer at installing from binary RPM, if that
looks daunting, I go find the sources.

Mats Wichmann