On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 10:47 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > 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?
When I say "upgrading", I mean taking a live machine, installing new packages on it and letting it to continue running. It appears that your notion of "upgrade" coincide well with RedHat's installer's notion - where you stick a CD into a machine, reboot it and choose "upgrade" from the first select box. To reduce confusion I will in the future say "update" when I mean what everyone means when they think about upgrading their Linux system to a new version, and "upgrade" when we talk about the MS-Windows way. > So upgrading is VERY recommended, if you ask me. Yes, but not anyone can spare the downtime, which was the problem of the original poster. If you can take the machine down, stick a CD in it and hold its hand while it churns your harddrive, go ahead. If you have a live remote system and you want to be able to update it as new versions of your OS are coming out - don't choose RedHat or Fedora. > 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, I was specifically referring to Geoffrey's usage of computer as a desktop machine. The desktop side of system is very well managed by the OS bundled configuration interfaces (not only with Fedora - on most modern Linux OSs), and getting these to reconfigure your system is easy and will get you back a stable configuration under most circumstances. As to the above mentioned services, I didn't even know they have configuration interfaces (aside from Fedora's sucky httpd server config dialog and Mandriva's sucky wizards) let alone decent ones. If you configure services then you need to do it by hand, and if you want to configure Sendmail then I wish you all the luck and you probably deserve anything you get from it ;-) -- Oded ::.. deviance from norm not encouraged by system: uninstall software. ================================================================= 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]
