Re: Upgrade from RH7.2 -> RH 7.3

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From: Nico Kadel-Garcia
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:48

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"Ian Northeast" <ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> al wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible for me to do an incremental upgrade from
> > Redhat 7.2. to 7.3 without major difficulties eg. a format ?
>
> In theory, yes, just boot the CD and select upgrade, but..
>
> > I'm happy with Redhat 7.2.  I'm not sure what are the benefits
> > of upgrading to the newer Redhat.
>
> why do you want to? If what you have works and does what you want, why
> take the risk, however small, of changing it? At least read the
> documentation accomanying RH7.3 to see if it will give you any benefit
> before starting. And naturally, ensure all valuable data are backed up
> first.

Because if you start grabbing the newer X tools, the 2.4.18 kernel instead
of the older 2.4.9 from RH 7.2, the updated gcc, the new glibc, the security
patches, etc., pretty soon your OS is more patches than distribution. Last
time I checked it was on the order of 200 available update RPM's, and some
of the dependencies were *not* pretty.

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