[Fedora-directory-users] OS Migration

[Richard Megginson]

Jim Summers wrote:
> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Richard Megginson wrote:
>>> Jim Summers wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello List,
>>>>
>>>> I am closing in on my target date to switch over to FDS.  On my 
>>>> test machines I have been running with FC4.  I need to re-install 
>>>> the operating system and when I do I will have to use RHEL4.
>>>>
>>>> My plan was to shutdown the DS.
>>>> Then make a tarball of /opt/fedora-ds and several other directories.
>>>> Next re-install with RHEL4
>>>> Drop in my iptables
>>>> Install fedora-ds and verify the OS / performance settings.
>>>> Then extract my fedora-ds tarball
>>>> and then hold my breath and start the DS service(s) and presto all 
>>>> is well???
>>>
>>> I have no idea.  It should work, but I really don't know if there 
>>> are any runtime dependencies in the FDS FC4 RPM binaries that will 
>>> break when run on RHEL4.
>
> I plan on installing the FDS with the rpm from:
>
> http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Download
> and use the fedora-ds-1.0.2-1.RHEL4.i386.opt.rpm
>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does this sound like a feasible approach?
>>>>
>>>> I am a little unsure if it will break any of my configured ssl 
>>>> stuff.  Which is a basic self-signed scenario using the 
>>>> /opt/fedora-ds/shared/bin/certutil for the key generation.
>>>
>>> I don't think that will be a problem as long as you don't change the 
>>> hostname of the machine.
>>
>> Also note that upgrading could be a problem since you aren't doing a 
>> standard RPM installation to begin with. You might be able to "trick" 
>> it by installing the Fedora RPM and then untarring over top of that.
>
> Ah, Now I see the problem.  What about only untarring the following 
> directories from my backed up DS from /opt/fedora-ds:
>
> admin-serv
> alias
> slapd-[hostname]
Add shared/config, clients/orgchart/config.txt, clients/dsgw/context, 
clients/dsgw/pbconfig, and clients/dsgw/config to that list as well.
>
> Then I should have my config, ssl, and directory with my 99user schema.
>
> Would this be cleaner?
>
> Thanks again.
>
>>
>> rob
>>
>>
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