Re: Redhat 8 to 9

[Bas Vermeulen <bvermeul blackstar nl>]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:00, Michael Kratz wrote:
> I've got a redhat 8 server, and out of interest I configured yum to use the
> redhat 9 repositories, then toyed with yum update <insert popular package>
> (i.e. apache, sendmail, etc) what is interesting is that with some of these
> theres very few dependencies to do the upgrade. (i.e. dependency for
> sendmail was tcpwrappers, and thats it)
> 
> My question is, is this a bad thing to do, and would it really break
> anything by upgrading some things to the Redhat 9 versions?

Personally I've just upgraded my server with apt-get upgrade from RH 8
to RH 9. Works so far, with 0 downtime.

Bas Vermeulen