Re: Redhat Upgrades

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:43:32AM -0500, John Bell wrote:
> Has anyone ever done an upgrade from RedHat 7.2 to 7.3?

Sure.

> I have typically just done a fresh install preserving /home and /opt,
> but I have a case where I want to do an upgrade to preserve an
> existing configuration.

That's why they have an upgrade option...

> I tried an upgrade once back in the 5.x/6.x days and it
> didn't go too well as I remember.

I can't imagine why.  I vaguely recall that some of the upgrades were
somewhat more painful than you'd like, since you had to reconfigure
sendmail, apache, and various other things because of config file
changes, but I've *never* had an upgrade go completely wrong.  This
goes all the way back to RH 2.1 -> 3.0.3...

> Are there any issues, caveats, problems that anybody has come across?

7.x -> 7.x seems to be about as painless as it gets.

The only issue that I've seen with 7.3 specifically is with KDE.  The
7.3 packages are broken up some, so there's a separate package for
kcalc, kcharselect, kcoloredit, kdict, kedit, etc., etc.  If you care
about these things, you just need to make sure you select all of those
packages.  (Or accept that you'll have to install them later, I
suppose.)

Even apt-get dist-upgrade *almost* works going from 7.2 to 7.3.

Steve
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