upgrade from RHL 7.2 to 7.3

[Harri Haataja]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:35:33AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Cyril Zlachevsky wrote:
> > I have server runs Red Hat Linux 7.2
> > Unfortunately version 7.2 support suspended.
> > I'm use apt-get for system updates.
> > My question is - it is safe to upgrade 7.2 to 7.3 by apt-get like this way?
> Should be.  I recall myself doing exactly that many moons ago... (-:

I also recall doing this. Possibly 7.1 -> 7.2 -> 7.3 -> 8.0 -> 9.0 more
or less. There will be snags as more major things and package names etc
change. You have to see that kernels change, initrds and whatnot get set
right, booting works etc.

I also tend to do larger  upgrades in phases if possible. First taking
"easy" targets like small applications and non-critical libraries etc
and cutting down the size of the possibly difficult chunk instead of
breaking everything at once.

Then again, RH wasn't probably quite meant to do this and there's
probably lots of combinations to find that don't quite work. I'm
especially wary of libc upgrades.

This was all a long ago, though.

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