Upgrades was Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 vs Redhat

Hi All,
Just installed RH 6.2 the other day and it is working
fine. If I could just find out how to shrink the size
of the icons at the bottom of the screen I would like
it better, it uses Gnome.
Clay Stapleton

Patrick Stoddard wrote:
>
> --- "J.L.Francois" <frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us>
> wrote:
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> > I would be interested in hearing other
> > peoples experiences with system upgrades
> > that didn't involve reboots or
> > reconstructing config files from backups
> > by hand.
>
> I just went from Red Hat 6.1 to 6.2 with a CD, and
> as it upgrades the packages it writes a file
> /tmp/upgrade.log with all the packages that were
> updated, listing any configuration files that were
> changed (the old ones get an .rpmsave appended to
> them) and any other configuration file that was not
> changed but installed as part of the process (those
> have an .rpmnew after the name). This way, you can
> compare the files that were on the system to those
> from the new install, and either use the new ones
> with any other customizations you might want to put
> in them, or revert to the old files.
>
> Not a bad process, although Red Hat has a knack of
> putting on some stuff even if you did not select it.
> I use GNOME and I ended up with the latest GNOME
> stuff and all the kde-related packages after the
> upgrade. I keep the bare minimum of KDE-related
> stuff on the drive if I want to run programs intended
> for a KDE environment, but I don't need competing
> versions of tools that would be supplied in both
> GNOME and KDE.
>
> I have not tried the RH 6.2 CD for an install on a
> new system yet, wonder how that works compared to the
> minor glitches in RH 6.1......
>
> Back to work.....
>
> Patrick Stoddard
>
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