Subject: RE: Upgrading Champion Server release 1.2 to Champion Server release 2.1?
From: Steve McGrane (mcsteve@globaltap.com)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 10:31:33 MST
Be very careful with your /etc partition during an upgrade. At the very
least save your passwd file and your shadow file to put back and have your
user accounts again. Any other tweaking you did should be noted.
- Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: nathan r. hruby [mailto:nhruby@arches.uga.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 10:29 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: Upgrading Champion Server release 1.2 to Champion Server
release 2.1?
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Quoting nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu):
> > Yes, it is ridiculous, but that is the only upgrade path (which isn't
> > really an upgrade path at all, is it :)
> >
> > You can run the YDL 2.0 installer on your 1.2.1 box and RPM will attempt
> > to upgrade everything and will leave you with a booting but very very
very
> > messy and clutter system which is probably more work to fix/clean then
to
> > re-install.
> >
> > I'd happily leave my 1.2.1 boxes alone *IF YDL PROVIDED SECUIRTY UPDATES
> > FOR IT INSTEAD OF IGNORING IT* Goes for 2.0 as well, there no reason
that
> > updates can't be pushed out via Yup for 1.2.1 and 2.0 boxes.
>
> Under Intel Linux (Redhat) you can fudge an update by rpm -F *.rpm, just
need to
> be careful about lilo/grub stuff.
>
> Would this method work for ydl?
>
Yes, but with unpredictable results as you'll have dependancy issues both
with your installation set and your exsisting package set. Major sticking
point being rpm/db3/glibc (plus all the gnome cross linked deps could get
nightmareish)
Also, you can't freshen the kernel packages, you need to -i them, and then
there are issues.
Not something you'd want to do on a production server.
Again, the eaisiest way is to make sure that you can mount /home as /home
on the reinstall and jsut tell the YDL installer not to format that
partiton when installing, then /home will migrate and everything else will
be anew.
-n
-- ...... nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu computer support specialist department of drama and theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu/ ......
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