Upgrading from YDL 2.3 to YDL 3.0

ron yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu May 22 22:26:01 2003


I can't really give you a sane answer about whether it is a prudent 
thing to do because I don't know if anything would break from the 
upgrade. What I do know is that the command to do it in one fell swoop 
is:

yum upgrade

with no other arguments. This will update the entire system.

-Ron

On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 02:18 PM, shore@buffy.fringenet.net wrote:

> On Wed, 21 May 2003 shore@fringenet.net wrote:
>> Hello there.
>> I am currently running a small web/mail server on YDL 2.3. It's 
>> running
>> happily on a PowerMac 9500/120 and does the job. I've got the typical
>> server programs installed like apache, MySQL, sendmail, etc., but no
>> GUI (I don't need it and it just eats memory). How easy or difficult
>> would it be to use yum/apt-get to upgrade everything to YDL 3.0. Is it
>> worth it, since as I understand it most of the benefit of 3.0 is with
>> the GUI interface and improvements on that end? What would I need to 
>> do
>> to upgrade it in one fell swoop, rather than recompile newer versions
>> of programs that I need upgraded (such as sendmail)? Any help is
>> appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>
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