Hi
> If I'd like to upgrade LH 6.2 to LH 7.0+. Would my > old data (LH setting, MySQL db) lost? No, but it is mandatory to make a backup (you should do on a regular basis even for a normal use, and obviously you MUST do it before a major upgrade - dump your databases and tar your /etc dir, al least). Many things are going to change, however. First of all, inetd is abandoned in favour of xinetd which is easier to configure but different. Also, many more packages are now compiled with the hosts.allow/hosts.deny support (don't spend too much time asking yourself why sendmail refuses connections, as I did). When you're upgrading choose to customize the packets you have to upgrade and unckeck MySQL. You will upgrade it yourself manually with a "fresh" version from the MySQL site (RedHat wants to replace your binaries with its ones, which are packaged differently) Don't install anything earlier tha version 7.2. Also, DON'T forget to patch your distribution with anything you can find from the RedHat support site. I would also suggest to download and install the latest kernel. I could easily upgrade my local system, but with a remote one i choosed to wait. If you don't want to upgrade now a (temporary?) solution is to upgrade just your gcc compiler (and NOT glibc) and rebuild the rpms from MySQL sources. This is a hint received from James C. McDonald (thanks a lot James!!!!!!): ------------------------------------------ 1. downloaded the gcc-2.95.2-1i.src.rpm from http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ (yes I know it's from a PPC distribution, but Yellow Dog is based on RedHat) [*] 2. built i386 rpms for gcc-2.95-2 by # rpm --rebuild gcc-2.95.2-1i.src.rpm on a RH 6.2 box [**] 3. on a test RH 6.2 system I removed egcs and installed the gcc-2.95-2 rpms I just built (or at least a subset of them (you need to install gperf-2.7-6.i386.rpm if it is not already installed) # rpm -e egcs-c++-1.1.2-30 # rpm -e egcs-objc-1.1.2-30 # rpm -e egcs-1.1.2-30 # rpm -e cpp-1.1.2-30 # rpm -ivh cpp-2.95.2-1i.i386.rpm # rpm -ivh gcc-2.95.2-1i.i386.rpm # rpm -ivh libstdc++-2.10.0-1i.i386.rpm # rpm -ivh gcc-c++-2.95.2-1i.i386.rpm # rpm -ivh gperf-2.7-6.i386.rpm you should now have gcc 2.95.2 installed # gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux/2.95.2/specs gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release/franzo) -------------------------------- At this point, if you want, you can also --rebuild gcc 2.96, which requires binutils-2.11 (have to --rebuild this, also). -------------------------------- 4. Now try to build the MySQL rpm's # rpm --rebuild MySQL-3.23.49-1.src.rpm now completes successfully giving ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6288340 Mar 5 12:59 MySQL-3.23.49-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1397099 Mar 5 12:59 MySQL-Max-3.23.49-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 690350 Mar 5 12:59 MySQL-bench-3.23.49-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1766978 Mar 5 12:59 MySQL-client-3.23.49-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622278 Mar 5 12:59 MySQL-devel-3.23.49-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 234505 Mar 5 12:59 MySQL-shared-3.23.49-1.i386.rpm I haven't tested the functionality of the build yet, but at least it builds without error. [***] ------------------------------------------ [*] You'll have to look directly into the Yellow Dog ftp site since rpmfind links are broken. [**] You need to have texinfo installed to build gcc (this package is on your RedHat CD) [***] I've tested it just a little but it really looks like it's working pretty well!!! My mysql binaries have been built with gcc 2.96 (but with gcc 2.95 it should work the same). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
