Just a note toremind of the difference between upgrade and install.
Install for me wipes everything out, but Upgrade usually works quite
well. Took me a while to figure that out.
Bill
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:41:10 -0400 Thomas Porter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Kurt A. Brust" wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, but going from 5.x to 6.x , does (IN REALITY) need to be
> fresh
> > installed... the install overites just about everything... dont
> mean to burst
> > your bubble...
>
> I don't want to get into any kind of argument here, but I have
> continuously upgraded from RH 3 on up through 6.1.
>
> Admittedly it wasn't much fun at times, and I had to look at the
> install
> logs pretty carefully, but it can be done.
>
> Biggest problems have always been when rpms have been split up, or
> files
> moved from one rpm to another, so upgrades to particular packages
> wiped
> out config files. I generally save off all of /etc somewhere safe
> so I
> can see what has changed after the upgrade. Changes to initscripts
> are
> a big challenge as well.
>
> I have often had to go out looking for newer versions of rpm's that
> do
> not come stock with RH or powertools. Big headache was switching
> from
> libc5 to glibc!
>
> FWIW
>
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> 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
> the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the
>
> kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
>
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