On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:33:27PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote: > Mandrake 9.2 upgrades cleanly older Mandrake systems (and at least on one > occasion, a RedHat 8.x) - just stick it into your coffee holder and > run /mnt/cdrom/live_update as root from X. it will present you with the > Mandrake 9.2 installation system and when choosing upgrade it will upgrade > the existing system to 9.2 while keeping all the configuration as is. > Note that you might need to edit your configuration files by hand or using the > supplied wizards to account for functionality changes with new versions of > some software packages (apache 1 to apache 2 for example). at then end it'll > require a quick reboot in order to load the new kernel so expect about 2 > minutes down time.
A number of pitfalls: 1. apache 1.3 is still availble. But the layout of the config files has varied a bit. Mandrake took great care into trying to allow you to run either version. But if your configuration is too customized it may be problematic. Be careful if you want to try using apache2. Best thing is to avoid it for the moment . Before upgrade, try to move any possible customization of yours away from httpd.conf / common-httpd.conf to a separate conf file to be included into httpd.conf . 2. If you have any locally-modified packages, make sure you have all of them at hand (including sources). You may need to rebuild them. And you may need to remove and reinstall. Keeping all of them in a local urpmi source is generally handy. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
