Alfredo,
12 machines is a lot. I upgraded 3 machines from 8.1 to 8.2 in the
following manner:
Downloaded all the rpms and put them on an ftp server in
/var/ftp/public/Mandrake/8.2/i586/RPMS. Then used urpmi to upgrade each
machine. This involved a lot of
1: select a package
2: urpmi it
3a: allow the dependencies if they seemed reasonable
or
3b: delete a package (if a conflict)
4 - repeat steps 1,2,3 until happy.
It was slow and inefficient, but it seems to have worked.
Why did I do this? Well, I don't have a CD burner and CDs hadn't made it
to the stores yet. It seemed like the quickest way to get 8.2 installed.
I'd guess that there's some way to do what you want by upgrading 1 machine
and then using rsync ...
Good luck.
David
At 04:01 PM 5/30/02, you wrote:
>Hi again!
>
>Thanks for the comments David and drjung!
>
>El Mi� 29 May 2002 20:21, escribiste:
> > Part of the design for shared libraries includes the ability to have
> > different versions exist on a machine and have the proper one be used. If
> > you take a look in /usr/lib, you'll see lots of version numbers in the
> > library names. So, by theory and design one should be able to have
> > glibc-2.1.3 and glibc-2.2.0 coexist on a machine without trouble.
>
>Yes, I know that.
>
> > Note the above statements appear to be theory and design. They are not
> > necessarily fact.
> >
> > At least twice I have installed a new version of glibc, only to discover
> > that basic commands like "ls" no longer work because the want the _old_
> > version of glibc.
>
>Me too.
>
> >
> > The only safe way I know of upgrading glibc is to boot from the
> > installation CDs and do a system upgrade.
>
>That's not an option..... :(
>I have 12 machines to upgrade and only one cdrom (some of them are servers
>for another 30 machines that boot from the net).
>I know it could be solved(I could make an upgrade from the net with nfs or
>ftp).
>But I couldn't get the hole system down for the upgrade. It too complex if
>something fails.... and I can't measure how long it will take to make the
>system behave in the same ways it does now.
>Between us..... I don't trust the upgrade..... ( may be I could do it at
>home).
>Here, in Argentina, when we have a problem like this, we say "se arregla con
>alambre", that means something like "fix it with wires and some thinking".
>Thanks for the response.
>
>ALF
>
>
>
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