Rob Crittenden wrote: > Richard Megginson wrote: >> Jim Summers wrote: >> >>> Hello List, >>> >>> I am closing in on my target date to switch over to FDS. On my test >>> machines I have been running with FC4. I need to re-install the >>> operating system and when I do I will have to use RHEL4. >>> >>> My plan was to shutdown the DS. >>> Then make a tarball of /opt/fedora-ds and several other directories. >>> Next re-install with RHEL4 >>> Drop in my iptables >>> Install fedora-ds and verify the OS / performance settings. >>> Then extract my fedora-ds tarball >>> and then hold my breath and start the DS service(s) and presto all is >>> well??? >> >> I have no idea. It should work, but I really don't know if there are >> any runtime dependencies in the FDS FC4 RPM binaries that will break >> when run on RHEL4. I plan on installing the FDS with the rpm from: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Download and use the fedora-ds-1.0.2-1.RHEL4.i386.opt.rpm >> >>> >>> Does this sound like a feasible approach? >>> >>> I am a little unsure if it will break any of my configured ssl >>> stuff. Which is a basic self-signed scenario using the >>> /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/certutil for the key generation. >> >> I don't think that will be a problem as long as you don't change the >> hostname of the machine. > > Also note that upgrading could be a problem since you aren't doing a > standard RPM installation to begin with. You might be able to "trick" it > by installing the Fedora RPM and then untarring over top of that. Ah, Now I see the problem. What about only untarring the following directories from my backed up DS from /opt/fedora-ds: admin-serv alias slapd-[hostname] Then I should have my config, ssl, and directory with my 99user schema. Would this be cleaner? Thanks again. > > rob > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users -- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -------------------------------------------------
