On Fri, Jul 23, 2004, Alexander Belck wrote:

Alex,

> How should I proceed to upgrade all packages [from 2.0] to the
> equivalent of release 2.1 ?
> 
my approach manually upgrading a instance from 2.0 to 2.1 is:

- read and understand the release notes [1] :-)

- backup the instance, especially the etc, share and var directories.

- make sure there's plenty of hard disk space available.

- download and upgrade the "bootstrap" openpkg package.

- upgrade/install make, binutils, gcc, perl and openpkg-tools packages.
  Assumed you're lucky with the gcc default options, which is likely
  to be the case, these steps can be automated by running "openpkg rpm
  install openpkg-tools". This makes

- see what "openpkg build -Ua" suggests and if it works and the output
  (which is a shell script) looks reasonably run it.

[1] http://cvs.openpkg.org/openpkg-re/releasenotes.txt

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