Carl Brewer <[email protected]> writes: > I'm planning to bump two amd64 virtual servers from 5.2 to 6.1.5 or 7 > tonight. > > In the past, I've over-written the kernel with the new version, > rebooted, then untar'ed the OS tarballs, over-writing everything, then > run postinstall to tidy up /etc, and it's "just worked" - everything > in pkgsrc kept working (cyrus, sendmail) and my home-made compiled > stuff did too (mostly older Plone instances) > > Any issues I might have doing that going from 5.2 to 6.1.5? Or, is it > safe to jump straight to 7 doing that?
I have updated 5->6, and have not tried 6->7. But surely others have. I use pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage which has scripts to automate what you describe, as well as merge /etc files. Note that with an upgrade, pkgsrc and so on will work, but once you start building some things, you may need to build/install everything because some libraries will change major version.
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