Subject: Re: 1.2.1 vs 2.1 Questions
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 09:21:56 MST
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Doktor Joy wrote:
> I am happily running YDL 1.2.1 on a Starmax 4000.
>
> But, there have been no recent YUP updates for YDL 1.2.1, and no new
> Kernel patches for months.
>
> Is 1.2.1 still supported in this way? Or, should I just smell the
> coffee and upgrade the machine to 2.1?
>
AFIK, support for 1.2.1 has been dropped. The recommended fix is an
upgrade to 2.1. I too run a 1.2.1 server and frankly, I'm still a little
pissed about this.
> Can I easily upgrade an existing installation to 2.1, or am I looking
> at a lot of work? And, are there good reasons to upgrade to 2.1, of,
> as the machine is happily running along on 1.2.1, should I just leave
> it?
>
You're talking backup, reformat, reinstall. Not hard, but not easy
either.
> (The machine functions as a LAMP server and there is little or no
> user interaction).
>
Regardless of users on the machine, I'd suggest upgrading for security
resons. Either that or start getting the erratta sources from later
distros and try rebuilding them on 1.2.1 -- this will cause issues because
rpm has changed from 1.2.1 to 2.x and you'll run ionto build isses as the
2 versions diverge. Upgrading rpm on a 1.2.1 machine is problematic
becasue of the db3 requirements which conflict with the older version of
libc in 2.1
All in all kind of an icky situation.
-n
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