On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > from the manpage is appended. I've found that the following is a simple
> > approximation:
> >
> > for i in `rpm -qac`; do if [ -f $i.rpmsave ]; then rpm -qf $i;\
> > ls -l $i $i.rpmsave; echo; fi done
>
> grep ".rpmsave" /tmp/upgrade.log
> grep ".rpmnew" /tmp/upgrade.log
>
> is more direct
It would be very useful to have some sort of configuration upgrading tool.
In most cases the old config file is compatible with the new package, but
sometimes it doesn't work. ,
like going from sendmail 8.8.x to 8.9.x , upgrading from the old bind to bind8
etc.
(Sometime these packages provide the config file conversion script)
I think RH should consider the config upgrading issue seriously,
since if you are upgrading a server with many running services,
the upgrade could become unmanageable, and very time consuming.
Yes, sometime it's not trivial to write a config upgrade parser,
but for the most important packages , this is definitively needed.
PS: I was screwed when I upgraded RH from 5.2 to 6.0, and postgres did not work
anymore:
I was forced to reinstall the old postgres, dump the data and then upgrade again
and import the data.
very annoying ...
regards,
Benno.
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