Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[David Herman <mesamoo115@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday 14 April 2003 06:39 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
> * Jim Norton (jrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [030414 18:06]:
> ->Can somebody tell me if I can trust doing an upgrade from a
> ->8.1 to 8.2 system?
> ->
> ->I've got a few packages installed from source and of course many
> ->config files are modified ( apache, postfix, cyrus etc ).
> ->
> ->Will I be able to simply to an upgrade install?  Can somebody from
> ->SuSE answer this one?
> ->
>
> If you've compiled from source the programs listed above..no 8.2 will
> not take this into account as it reads the RPM database for it's
> upgrade. What I would suggest is backing up the config files and
> whatever else you need then do the upgrade and recompile/install the
> programs your concerned with and then copy the config files back into
> their location. Otherwise I think you'd be screwed and very angry.

To carry this a bit further it sounds like if you've used checkinstall 
(rather than "make install" then an upgrade should work as your 
compiled progs will be in the rpmdb.

Is this a correct understanding?
(of course backing up config files seems prudent in any case)

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dh
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