On Thu, 20 May 2004, Stuart Low wrote: > > I've personally got a Redhat 7.1 box and a Redhat 8 box both of which I've > > considered upgrading, however I'm very skeptical about doing it for fear of > > it stuffing up. (these boxen are in production!) :) > > How well does the upgrade happen? does it keep config files and so forth? > > *nods* Obviously you SHOULD do a full system backup but yes. The Redhat > RPMs use the NoConfigReplace tag to avoid overwriting machine specific > configs. I have done live upgrades from 7.1 to 7.3 using apt-get and a little rpm --nodeps --force. It's a bit scary from that perspective, but a general upgrade should be much less heart-wrenching. :) rh 6.2 to 9 ... now _that_ was gut-wrenching ... -- -- John E. Jasen (jjasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) -- No one will sorrow for me when I die, because those who would -- are dead already. -- Lan Mandragoran, The Wheel of Time, New Spring -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
