The race to GCC 3

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 01:51:20PM -0400, David Kramer wrote:

[snip]

> So I guess we won't be able to easily upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0.  I spent way 
> too much time getting my server right to start from e2fsck again.

  Don't see why you couldn't upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0.  As long as your not
doing it piecemeal and are using the actual installer, everything will be
upgraded together from the boot media and should work fine.  Upgrades are
definitely a part of the testing process and are supported (though, I don't
know how far back it goes -- used to be as far back as 2.0 for Red Hat, but
I don't think that's the case anymore ;-)).
  Where you *could* run into problems is if you've added custom software
not part of the distribution.  You may just have to recompile with gcc 3.2
after the upgrade to get things working again.  Not sure what you mean by
'e2fsck again', as that has little (if anything) to do with gcc and
glibc upgrades.
  I general distrust all upgrades, anyhow.  At the very least, I duplicate
my existing install and make sure I can boot from it.  Then I do the upgrade
on the original install and if something disastrous happens, I just boot
from the copy I made and see what I can fix, or revert back to the old release
and plan a clean install, migrating my customizations over to the new release.
A pain, yes, but I've been burned too often by in the past (though, not so
much lately, interestingly enough) by upgrades.

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