On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> I strongly recommend we upgrade to RedHat 7.1. The reason for that is that
> most of our packages are quite out-of-date and may have security breaches
> in them. In order to upgrade using the RPMs or the Source RPMs we need the
> most up-to-date version of RPM - 4.0.x. The latter does not compile
> cleanly out of its source (at least not the last time I checked) and its
> RPM is in version 4.x format, too.
Redhat does give there an simpler upgrade path than recompiling he whole
distro.
Let's see now:
[tzafrir@iglu tzafrir]$ rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.0.2-6x
(according to its install date it was installed on Fri 27 Jul 2001
05:10:48 PM IDT)
So the rpm part should be basically covered.
Note however:
[tzafrir@iglu tzafrir]$ rpm -qa |grep rpm
rpm-build-3.0.4-0.48
rpm-devel-3.0.4-0.48
rpm-4.0.2-6x
The rpm-build package needs updating as well (and the rpm-devel, while
we're at it)
But our reason for wanting to upgrade was a safer upgrade to kernel 2.4
>
> The best way to ensure easy maintainability is to upgrade to RH 7.1 which
> supports the new RPM format. It will also save us some trouble because it
> already comes with newer packages. And I did not hear too many horror
> stories about RH 7.1, so installing it should be OK.
My problem with the installation is that it is a downtime (2-3 hours for
the installation, and some unexpected time period later, until everything
works fine). As such if we do decide to do it, it might be better to do it
ASAP (while the mirrors are empty and traffic is low?)
>
> The other alternative is to install everything from the source tar.gz, but
> it would be more painful because the RH distro configures things
> differntly from their default.
Again, installing most things from source rpms works fine (at least for
programs. Basic packages, like kernel and glibc are a different story)
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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