Re: first impressions of Red Hat 8.0

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Steven Pritchard wrote:

>     * rpm is totally, completely, and utterly broken.
> 
>       OK, so that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I've definitely had
>       problems with it.  Problems that were bad enough that I totally
>       lost the rpm database once.  Just keep that in mind if you try
>       it.  Don't add or remove a lot of packages until you see some
>       updates, just to be safe.  (That, or at least make a backup of
>       /var/lib/rpm before you make any such changes.)

I also had this happen in the short test I had done. I ended just 
reinstalling 7.3 on that machine. My problems were coincident with trying 
to add something with apt, so I may have been the problem myself.
 
>     * Lots of stuff has been moved around.  In many cases, I see the
>       reasons, but this is likely to mean some reconfiguration of
>       upgraded systems.  (As an example, setting ESSID and such in
>       /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts no longer works.  They have to be set
>       in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? or whatever.)
> 

I would also add that it upgrades apache to 2.0, and does not transfer the
1.3 configuration files.  This is a good thing, but be warned and do your
web server upgrade during off hours (of course). It also upgrades php to
4.2.2, but again this is good, unless you were using something pretty old.

Erich

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