As I keep installing packages over time I find that my upgrade times are going up. My upgrade time from 5.2 to 5.3 was only about 30 minutes. I find now though that a few of my systems are much bigger and so there are usually 150-200 packages to upgrade and so this can take 45 minutes to an hour depending on the speed of the system I'm upgrading. Pros: The upgrade of packages and the system itself from 5.3 to 6.0 went very smoothly. Cons: Any custom stuff I had linked against libc5 no longer worked. I had to recompile all of my custom stuff to use libc6 instead. All went smooth here as I simply recompiled and reinstalled all of my custom stuff. (Note that I did expect this to happen since I knew SuSE 6.0 was based on glibc. This may be a con for some people that are unaware of this change). IP_FORWARD is set to "no" in the /etc/rc.config file and so this broke IP Masquerading on my server. It seems like the gcc packages were broken up or something as I discovered that "gcc" no longer existed on my system after the upgrade. I had to install a "gccfront" package to get "gcc" back on my systems so I could do kernal compiles. Chris Martin wrote:
I had been wondering the same thing, and not hearing anything back, just went ahead and did it. If you just follow the standard upgrade procedure (look in the 5.3 or 6.0 manual which comes with the ditbn) it works!! Imagine that!! (I had some very small bugs to work out. . . very small. . .install took about 30 mins not counting stupidity time) So, once again, I was happy with SuSE's product, even though I remain less than enthusiastic about their public/commercial presence. Obviously though, a good product (should!) trump a good image. Lets keep our collective fingers crossed.
chris
On 18-Mar-99 millerd wrote:
Is there a single source ie HOWTO describing all the tricks, dangers and glitches in migrating from 5.3 to 6.0? I have been watching the e-mails for a while now and just bought 6.0. But there seems to have been a great number of problems and fixes listed I have lost count of them. A single document would be a great idea.
thanks
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