once upon a time peter wrote i started wondering how does apt react when it finds a newer kernel in the bunch of to be updated files it skips it see the etc apt apt conf file for this and has anyone ever tried to do a dist upgrade say from NUMBER NUMBER to NUMBER NUMBER should it work if not why i ve done a dist upgrade from NUMBER NUMBER to a quite broken rawhide release it was a mess still it went much faster and smoother than if i had done it manually with rpm u or f i think that updates between stable releases should still be done with the installer since iirc sometimes a few twitches are done by anaconda to migrate configurations to new formats it should work though i still prefer backuping config files and reinstalling a clean system when i have the time matthias matthias saou world trade center edificio norte NUMBER planta system and network engineer NUMBER barcelona spain electronic group interactive phone NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER _______________________________________________ rpm list mailing list rpm list freshrpms net URL 