> In my limited experience, an RH 8.0 to RH 9 upgrade via apt-get works well, > but isn't for the faint of heart. I've also done some other upgrades. My > results are: > > RH 6.1 to RH 6.2 via apt-get Works really well, no problems. > RH 6.2 to RH 7.x via apt-get Many problems that must be worked around. > RH 7.2 to RH 7.3 via apt-get Works okay, only minor problems. > RH 8.0 to RH 9 via apt-get Works well, except it uninstalls a few things > including apt itself, which must be > re-installed > afterwards. Anyone done a 7.1 to 7.3 upgrade? I'm wanting to do one of these also. Last night I decided to be a bit daring and started upgrading select packages on my RH 8 box to the RH 9 versions, I avoided crucial system stuff, and I haven't done all of them. The only one that broke out of all the ones I did was Squid. When I restarted squid it couldn't find the error files, it was looking in something like /usr/share/squid/errors/ when they were actually in /usr/share/squid/errors/English/ so I just moved them up a directory and squid was happy again. The only other thing I ran into was when I upgraded some stuff to do with RPM, and then I did a rpm --rebuilddb, after that YUM stopped working, so I tried upgrading it to the latest version 2 (instead of version 1) and that fixed that issue. About the only custom stuff I run on both my RH 8 box and my RH 7.1 box is Amavis with Sendmail. Some of the perl stuff for Amavis has been installed using CPAN not RPM's. This is the thing I am most concerned about breaking because it took me ages to get it working. -- Michael -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
