From: Adam Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 2:40 PM
Hi All,
If you have a RH 6.2 machine, can you use apt-rpm to upgrade it to RH 9.0? or can you only update it to the latest 6.2 packages?
If you can upgrade it to 9.0, is there anything you need to watch out for that may kill the system?
No knowledge of apt-rpm, but just on what might go wrong in the upgrade:
I recently upgraded from RedHat 7.1 (with all the latest RPMs for it installed) to RedHat 9 using the upgrade option from the CDs. The list of things that I noticed no longer worked included:
httpd was upgraded, but the link to start it in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d was removed. It took me a while before I found out that I no longer had that running.
saned upgrade overwrote the /etc/xinetd/saned entry and the list of permitted users - both without making a backup (no rpmsave/rpmold/rpmnew!). Samba was upgraded, but swat wasnt? The old swat was removed though!
I was using LPRN for my printer, and it overwrote the configuration file without backing it up.
vmware 3.x just doesnt work out of the box with RedHat 9. Fortunately there is a patch.
Most other changes seemed to go OK. I have not yet tested the fax though.
Regards, Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
