Re: Upgrade distribution while system is running

[Nitebirdz]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ulrich Kiermayr wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> A Question: is it possible to do an upgrade (e.g. 6.1 -> 6.2) while the
> system is up and running.
> 
> I could do an rpm -F /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPM/*, but this might break some
> dependencies (of packages which got split up for example)
> 
> It is because i want to reduce downtimes due to upgrades (and be able to
> do the upgrade remotely.)
> 
> Thanks for any advice
> 

I've done it in a couple of cases, but I suppose it is wise to actually
take the server out of production, perform the upgrade, make sure
everything works fine and then put it back in production.  Nevertheless,
in those cases where I had to do it, I didn't experience any problems.

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