State of 7.2/8.0 in Fedora Legacy

Michael Kratz mkratz at internode.com.au
Fri May 21 00:47:28 UTC 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Rostetter" <rostetter at mail.utexas.edu>
To: <fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: State of 7.2/8.0 in Fedora Legacy

> > How well does the upgrade happen? does it keep config files and so
forth?
>
> Depends on your services, etc.  7.1 to 7.3 shouldn't be a big deal.
> 7.x to 8.x has some things to watch for (wu-ftp -> vsftp, apache 1.x
> to apache 2.x come to mind) which can cause upgrade problems for you
> if you use those services.
>
> For me, it is more of a customization issue than a technical issue.  I've
> got lots of custom software that I need to keep intact.

The only custom thing that I'm running on these boxen is really Amavis, and
a changed sendmail.cf file to interact with Amavis.

The rest is pretty much standard stuff.





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