<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 18:17 -0400, John Pilman wrote:<br>
> > Ububtu and Fedora both support an Upgrade option (Don't know about Ubunbtu<br>
> > LTS. RHEL doesn't support an upgrade between major releases).<br>
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> In Ubuntu Update Manager Settings you select:<br>
> Release Upgrade, Show new distribution releases:<br>
> Never<br>
> Normal releases<br>
> Long Term Support releases only<br>
<br>
</div>I think in my case I'm just being punished. The first thing I do after<br>
all Ubuntu installs is add the repository for mplayer, codecs, etc. I<br>
like playing mp3s regardless what the folks at Ubuntu want to force on<br>
me :)<br></blockquote><div><br>Wait a minute!?!? You mean Fedora handles an external repo _better_ than the magic ubuntu?!? BWAHAHAHA!!!<br><br>Oh. It does.<br><br>In Fedoraland, we use the rpmfusion repo for "things not distributable" by Fedora/RedHat. Most if not all of these are due to patent/license issues. However, the last several full Fedora system upgrade (F12->F13->F14) handled the third party repo just fine. There's a place in the upgrade process to enter third party repos if working from a CD boot style, otherwise it reads the active repos in the /etc/yum.repos.d folder and consults with them with the new release data. So during the upgrade process, packages from the rpmfusion repo (and others will work as well if they are as coordinated as rpmfusion is - they have package builds for the rawhide,alpha,beta and rc versions ready to go) are also upgraded to the next release version auto_freakin_magically. So my mplayer-freeworld on F13 was upgraded to mplayer-freeworld on F14 (as well all the multimedia player plugins in Firefox - except for Adobe Flash).<br>
<br>MWAHAHAHAHA!<br></div></div><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><br>As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
outcome.<br>- <i><i><i><i>2011 Noam Chomsky</i></i></i></i><br>