[olug] Clean Upgrade using RPMS?

[Trent Melcher]

Sorry to hear your upgrade horror.  I have never gotten an upgrade to work
totally 100%.  There seems to always be issues that are not taken into
account when an upgrade is done.  I have only used the upgrade utility that
RedHat has when you boot from the install CDs.  THe upgrade itself always
goes smoothly, but the issues usually arise when trying to run applications
or customized software.

I find that a clean install of the latest and greatest version, then
modifying after that with your custom software/code works best.

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
CM Miller
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:25 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] Clean Upgrade using RPMS?




I find myself beating my head against the wall here.

Upgraded a RH 8 box to RH 9 and wanted to use apt-get
dist upgrade to do so, because I customized so much
stuff on there and in the interest of time.

Well, it didn't work.  Luckly I backed up all of my
data and did a clean install.  Now going thru the
process of setting everything back up to where I had
it, which is taking time.

Who has been sucessful in an rpm based upgraded using
rpm or whatever rpm application, and would like to
share with the group?

Just as a side note, I run Knoppix on my laptop and
apt-get runs well on there, but having a few problems
on some packages, and wondering if apt-get dist
upgrade would have problems on there as well?

thanks

-Chris



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"I've dug graves for a living, I've done customer sevice/telemarketing for a
living.  Guess which one is more rewarding careerwise?"

-CM Miller

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