Not long ago, Andres Gonzalez proclaimed... > I currently have a Fedora 7 box up and running. However, I am getting > a lot of Kernel Bug messages in my dmesg output. So, I am thinking of > upgrading to Fedora 8 since I have a Fedora 8 CD. > > My question is this: If I update to Fedora 8, will the install > procedure blow away my current lib directory or will it just add to it > any updated libraries?
If you do the upgrade, it will IN THEORY not overwrite anything you've
added to the box.
> The reason for my question is that I currently have the Intel C++
> compiler installed on the Fedora 7 box. When I installed it, it did
> not support Fedora 7 so I had to go get a few earlier versions of some
> of the standard libraries just so the Intel compiler was happy. I do
> not want to go thru that again and would want the Fedora 8 upgrade
> procedure to just add any new libraries, run times, kernel, etc, and
> not blow away any existing stuff.
The upgrade process is not without its flaws. IMO, you should do a fresh
install and reinstall the Intel compiler in /usr/local or in /opt where you
can back it up as needed in the future.
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