As I keep installing packages over time I find that my upgrade times are
going up. My upgrade time from 5.2 to 5.3 was only about 30 minutes. I
find now though that a few of my systems are much bigger and so there
are usually 150-200 packages to upgrade and so this can take 45 minutes
to an hour depending on the speed of the system I'm upgrading.
Pros:
The upgrade of packages and the system itself from 5.3 to 6.0 went very
smoothly.
Cons:
Any custom stuff I had linked against libc5 no longer worked. I had to
recompile all of my custom stuff to use libc6 instead. All went smooth
here as I simply recompiled and reinstalled all of my custom stuff.
(Note that I did expect this to happen since I knew SuSE 6.0 was based
on glibc. This may be a con for some people that are unaware of this
change).
IP_FORWARD is set to "no" in the /etc/rc.config file and so this broke
IP Masquerading on my server.
It seems like the gcc packages were broken up or something as I
discovered that "gcc" no longer existed on my system after the upgrade.
I had to install a "gccfront" package to get "gcc" back on my systems so
I could do kernal compiles.
Chris Martin wrote:
>
> I had been wondering the same thing, and not hearing anything back, just went
> ahead and did it. If you just follow the standard upgrade procedure (look in
> the 5.3 or 6.0 manual which comes with the ditbn) it works!! Imagine that!!
> (I had some very small bugs to work out. . . very small. . .install took about
> 30 mins not counting stupidity time) So, once again, I was happy with SuSE's
> product, even though I remain less than enthusiastic about their
> public/commercial presence. Obviously though, a good product (should!) trump
> a good image. Lets keep our collective fingers crossed.
>
> chris
>
> On 18-Mar-99 millerd wrote:
> >
> > Is there a single source ie HOWTO describing all the tricks, dangers and
> > glitches in migrating from 5.3 to 6.0?
> > I have been watching the e-mails for a while now and just bought 6.0.
> > But there seems to have been a great number of problems and fixes listed
> > I have lost count of them.
> > A single document would be a great idea.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > denis miller
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