On 09/15/00, 09:30:37AM -0500, Billy R Nordyke Sr wrote:
> Just a note toremind of the difference between upgrade and install.
Another difference: upgrade only "upgrades" that which is already on
the computer. Any new packages have to be installed explicitly, after
the upgrade.
John
> 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
> >
> > --
> > Tom Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament],
> > '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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