On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:00 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 07:03 -0800, R Lists06 wrote: > <snip> > > Anyone ever upgrade from 3.x to 4.x > > Yes, with anaconda and the "upgradeany" option. Upgrades across major > kernel and glibc versions are at best very difficult with yum/apt-get. > The most likely result of attempts to upgrade across major versions with > package management tools is a broken system. > > > without problem > > Not really. Expect lots of left-over orphan packages and problems with > system and end-user configurations. > > > and how so? > > Use "rpm -qa --last" to find packages that pre-date the upgrade and deal > with them by removal and/or forced/manual updates. Look for all the > *.rpm* files in /etc/... and reconcile differences with current versions > of config files. Fix numerous user GUI/application problems. > > Or [highly recommended], back up config files and user files to > accessible media and do a clean install. Use the backup as > model/example to configure the new system. Create new user home > directories and selectively copy/link stuff as required from the backup. > Keeping old GNOME/KDE configurations in place is guaranteed to cause > problems. I like to keep the old installation on-line and still > bootable and accessible and do a fresh install on a separate hard disk > (or at least on separate partitions) and be able to boot back to the > previous version as a fall-back. > > Phil I want to second Phil's advise and exactly what I would recommend. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070105/5d9c7117/attachment-0005.sig>