Stephen Furlong wrote:
As far as I know
or will it only upgrade the 1 package before it?
No, it should do upgrades from the days of pre-9. whether it goes fine or not is another question, as im sure ive seen many problems with 9.2 upgrades.
--- This is news to me -- when I installed 9.1, I had purchased 9.0 but never got around to installing it on my "server" (in house, but a server to Windows clients and the firewall/proxy for those clients). I upgraded from 8.2, I believe (whatever was the version prior to 9.0), but 9.1 said it couldn't find (hardly**) any packages to upgrade. I could "choose" to install a completely new installation over my old disk (formatted or not, but recommended against not formatting the old disk first). **hardly -- it upgraded about 4-5 packages but nothing significant -- like no new "base" no new kernel, gcc or libs...etc. It's been a while since I did this, but somehow the upgrade deleted the unknown package names from the RPM database. I was left to manually installing packages with --nodeps or --force and manually deleting old files that weren't associated with any packages (cd to a dir, type rpm -qf *, delete files that didn't belong to a package that also were not any "hand-added" files). Needless to say, the upgrade was a _*nightmare*_!!! I wondered "what the heck", then read the fine print on the update insert -- that they 9.1 update would only update the immediately preceeding version. So, while I could have restored my rpm database from backups and gone through the motions of first installing the 9.0 update package, then installing the 9.1 update, I thought that would be equally painful. It was a good thing I had the 9.0 disks around, since the 9.1 CD's/DVD's couldn't directly upgrade my systems as they used XFS and the stock 9.1 kernel included in the updater had a "last minute change" that was snuck into the release process that had XFS file mounting broken. So in some ways, it was good that I did my upgrade manually, or I might have been left with a dead gateway system -- the one that allows me to send email in & out and gives HTTP access for downloading the needed patch. That's still a bug in the upgrade process -- if you need to download a patch to complete your install and you are behind a firewall. But back to the update process -- did it change with 9.2? Since 9.1 specifically stated it would only update the version immediately prior to the current version -- which makes the upgrade process a real pain -- either upgrade each and every time an upgrade comes out, or go through the equivalent of a new install as new packagenames apparently change significantly between releases... :-(