David Sainty wrote:
>
> > I've also never had a successful RH upgrade. It has always required a
> > complete re-install. So now I usually partition off what I want to
> > keep and install the new stuff as needed.
>
> Interesting. I have now successfully upgraded a server with very very
> little pain from RH 5.1, to 5.2, to 6.0, to 6.1 and to 6.2. :-))) Chose
> the "upgrade" option every time. (So, easiest upgrade experience I've
> ever had with an OS...) Never ceases to amaze me.
I'm sure your server upgrades went very well, but there must be a big
difference between upgrading a server, which probably has bare minimum
of packages installed, and a desktop machine, which could have any
number of things installed.
> > I agree that Linux has become just as bad as Windoz with its upgrade
> > treadmill every few months, but as I decline to play bleeding edge, it
> > doesn't worry me. I just install the latest at the time and leave it
> > until it is broke.
>
> Its all a matter of requirements, yes. If you want bleeding edge, at least
> its available. glibc updates have never affected me too badly in the
> past, and don't expect them to in the future either.
Your upgrades as stated above have taken you from glibc-2.0.7 to
glibc-2.1.3. Not a large jump, considering that the majority of binaries
compiled under glibc-2.0.7 run with glibc-2.1.3 without problem. The
programs that broke between these glibc versions were the ones that were
badly behaved anyway (like Star Office 5.1).
I recently bit the bullet and installed the glibc-2.1.3 rpm from RH6.2
over my RH5.2 installation. I haven't tested everything formally or
anything, but I haven't noticed much wrong... automount broke, KDE spits
out more messages when I shut it down and return to a VT (but it still
seems to work ok). That's about it so far. The latest RH6.2-built wine
package refused to work though... I probably have to upgrade more
libraries to get it to work (even though according to rpm, all of its
dependencies were met - I didn't have to force it to install or
anything).
Anyway, I'll be installing Debian Potato soon enough...
Matthew
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