On Mon, Jun 12, 2006, Oded Arbel wrote about "Re: Upgrading live RH9": > As mentioned before- upgrading RedHat/Fedora is not a recommended > practice
I'm not sure anyone said that. Upgrading Fedora is not only recommended practice, it is the only sensible practice: I've been using Redhat since Redhat 5.0, and probably upgraded about 15 (!) times since. If I didn't upgrade, what was I supposed to do - stay with Redhat 5.0? Re-install the system from scratch 15 times? The company I work for, that has a serious case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome, has their own private version of a Linux distribution. One of the first things they gave up on was the "upgrade feature". They say that upgrade is "not safe", "not recommended", that "you need to backup first anyway, as who knows what will happen", that "nobody wants to upgrade Linux" (that's true when you assume that nobody's using Linux!), and all sorts of other excuses. But in reality, this causes people to stay with an ancient distribution for several years, and when they do want to install a new distribution, it wastes several days of work to reconfigure everything the way it was before the reinstallation. So upgrading is VERY recommended, if you ask me. To bad it's also slow and annoying (taking 10 hours on my machine) and virtually impossible (though perhaps not completely impossible) to do remotely, but that's not a reason not to do it. > but if you had problems its quite possibly to recover from > that by making sure you have everything upgraded (i.e. - nothing left > over from the previous OS), and then re-run all the configuration > programs. What do you mean by "rerun all the configuration programs"? In reality, it is far more complex to recreate a configuration that what you portrey. A year after you configured Apache, Mysql, Bugzilla, Subversion, Ftpd, Sendmail, and who knows what else, do you really remember how to recreate all this configuration on a fresh installation? If not, then an "upgrade" (which keeps the existing configuration) is by far the easiest way to go. -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Jun 12 2006, 16 Sivan 5766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Linux is just like a wigwam: no Windows, http://nadav.harel.org.il |no Gates and an Apache inside. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
