On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:18:15AM +0530, Ambar Roy spoke out thus: > > I have RH6.1 installed on a production server running Kernel 2.2.12-20. > > > > I have RPM version 3.0.3-2 installed and wish to upgrade. I downloaded > > rpm-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm from the archives of RH6.2 updates from the Redhat > > site. > > > > I did a "rpm -UvhF rpm-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm" and it says "query of > > rpm-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm failed". I tried a "rpm -ivh rpm-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm" > > and it says "rpm-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm cannot be installed". > > > > I remember Raj Mathur having a bad experience on the upgradation. > > Subsequently some body had said RedHat's RPM binary does the necessary > > upgrade. > > > > Whats wrong? Any hints. > One very big hint. Have a backup of your production server running with > a similar sofware and hw config as your production server. Be very > particullar about the software config. Then before you do anything, do a > thorough test on your backup server and only when you are satisfied do an > upgrade for the production server! I don't know about your case, but > typically a production server shud not be touched unless you are sure of > what you are doing. > Also why do you wan't to upgrade to rpm 4 on your rh 6.1 machine? My > experience with servers tells me that as long as things are not broken, > don't fix them. And if you are thinking about a major upgrade for a server > (like rpm) then do consider a full reinstall. Typically that does have long > term benefits.
Ambar, I don't want to start a flamewar with you - I like you. Ever since we spent that one night alone in...oh no! I was with Pamela Anderson, not you. But I have to point out one small thing. A common motto in the Unix world is "Provide mechanism, not policy". What I mean by this in present context is that you are providing a policy to the orginal poster of the question. You are saying: 1) As a policy, backup production servers before making any changes 2) As a policy, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Now, I whole heartedly agree with what you are saying - with both the points above. But what I fail to understand is how it anwers the current question at hand - that of upgrading RPM from 3.x to 4.x on a RedHat 6.x system. I think your post would have been more valuable if you had provided step-by-step instructions like Sandip, and *then* added words of wisdom like you have in the two paragraphs of your mail. Regards, -Varun P.S. I know this sounds ironical, even contradictary. I am trying to provide Ambar withthe policy of not providing policies. But please note that I have proposed a mechanism in the last para of my mail. -- --------------------------------------- Mindframe Software & Services Pvt. Ltd. http://www.mindsw.com --------------------------------------- ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
