MySQL upgrade from 3.x to 4.x wit hYUM

[lonnie at outstep.com]

So if I actually understand you correctly then you just used the rpm
UPGRADE to go from 3.23 to 4.0 and then placed the old
/var/lib/mysql into the new space.

Cheers,

Lonnie Cumberland
OutStep Technologies Incorporated
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On Thu, July 7, 2005 15:28, Rakotomandimby Mihamina said:
> lonnie at outstep.com wrote:
>> Hello All,
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>> I was wondering someone could please tell me if you had any
>> problems
>> with the upgrade as we already have databases on our MySQL 3.x and
>> do not want to lose the data.
>
> I did it from MySQL 3.23 to MySQL 4.0.20 just by droping the
> /var/lib/mysql directory and then it works.
>
> You can also use the dump method, but the "raw copy" worked for me.
>
> It was a precious DB, but I tested the method thenI succeded, so
> that I
> did not try another one anymore :-)
>
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