Re: Upgrading 7.1

[Mark Cooper <redhat_seawolf mcooper demon co uk>]

The reason for the upgrade is the requirement for newer versions of 
software. Up2date is a great service that allows you to stabilise on a 
particular RH release and keep upto date with the latest bug and 
security releases. However, up2date only patches the original packages 
and normally doesn't upgrade them. This isn't a complaint, I'm just 
pointing out the reason for my decision :)

I've been using 7.1 on this particular server for a long time now and 
its starting to become a pain that it doesn't have newer software such 
as Apache 2.0.x, Perl 5.8, Mysql 3.23.54, GCC 3.2.2, QT 3.1.1 etc etc.

My only previous experience of doing a rolling upgrade using a RH boot 
CD was from a long time back and was from 5.x to 6.x I think...it didn't 
go well. Thats why I'm a bit skittish about how to do it this time, I've 
got lots of data I cannot lose :)

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Mark Cooper
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