[UCLA-LUG] Upgrading questions . . .

[Mark James Fasheh]

Josh,
	I've never really upgraded (or used) Mandrake, but I did a very
similar thing from rh6.0 to rh6.1.  Basically, the install went fine, and
the installer simply didn't install any RPMS that were older than what I
had.  RPM also saved any configuration files that were to be overwritten to
FILENAME.rpmsave.  As far as non-rpm software goes, most of mine worked
fine, though there were some inconsistencies.  Things definately needed to
be fixed though, so I would plan to have to do some of that.
	--Mark

On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:50:36PM -0700, Josh Barratt wrote:
> Hey all . . . I have what once was a version of Mandrake 6.1 (6.2?)
> installed on my machine . . . however, I've upgraded umpteen rpm's etc since
> then and it is currently far from a stock anything. Anyway, I'd like to
> upgrade this beast to a stock mandrake 7.1 or whatever the latest is . . .
> I'm starting to have odd inconsistencies in a lot of the gnome garbage, etc.
> and it'd be nice to sort of start again with a lot of that stuff. (And I
> tried installing Helix, but I have an "unsupported distro" so it barfs.) My
> question is about how "clobbery" the upgrade process is . . . I have a lot
> of customization here, lots of non-rpm software installed, custom init.d
> scripts, sendmail stuff, etc etc etc. I'll back up the whole /etc tree but I
> don't have hours and hours right now to get everything back the way it was
> if I have to manually fix tons of stuff. Does anyone have any experience in
> what the upgrade process actually does and how nasty it could get?
> 
> Thanks a bunch . . .
>     Josh
> 
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