Tobias Kjær Tobiasen wrote:
> Hello
> I have installed 2.23.32 from source - and I want to upgrade to the
> latest *rpm* (redhat 6.2@intel). How to do this? The database is in
> production so downtime should be avoided.. Can I do this:
> 1) Install the rpm on top of the source installation (I seems to me
> that they are using different folders).
> 2) Stop the database.
> 3) Move the files /usr/local/mysql/var to /var/lib/mysql.
> 4) Start the rpm version of MySql
> 5) Remove the old version - how do I uninstall the source dist?
>
Hi!
I tried it - it worked perfectly :-) I only had 15 seconds downtime -
nobody noticed!
T2
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