[TriLUG] RE: Redhat 8 upgrade toubles

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 15:11, Jeff Jackowski wrote:
> >
> >ps - Have you been either moving libraries by hand or using rpm with 
> >     any of the --force options?  If so, same on *you*.
> 
> Nope. It all worked before I tried to upgrade to RH8. Then everything but 
> "rpm -q" worked. Then I upgraded to the RH8.x beta, and rpm didn't work at 
> all.


Cool beans that you fixed it.

And yeah, I'm not a fan of upgrades.  I like to get rid of the cruft
from previous versions by doing the following:

  1) store all the data I care about in a separate /home partition

  2) tar -czvf /home/etc_copy.tar.gz /etc

  3) Do a *fresh* install of Red Hat being careful not to over- 
     write /home

  4) install any necessary extras (MatLAB, etc.) and then

  5) copy any custom config files from the tarball of etc done in 
     step #2

Ed
 
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