[ale] Upgrading Slackware

[Geoffrey]

This has been my solution since RH 5.0 as well.  It's cleaner and you'll 
rid yourself of quite a bit of clutter.

Transam wrote:
>>A long time ago, (26.03.03), in a galaxy far, far away, Will wrote:
> 
> 
>>:=
>>:=Ok, I'm currently running Slackware 7.1 with a 2.4.14 kernel on it. I
>>:=have Apache, MySQL, Qmail installed and over 100 users on this box
>>:=(Mostly client FTP sites).
>>:=
>>:=Does anyone know of a safe, sane method to upgrading to Slackware 9.0
>>:=with out loosing all my custom scripts and installs?
> 
> 
> This is generic.  I use it for SW & RH a lot.  I don't trust vendor
> upgrades (including rpm) because it is common for them to trash
> configuration files.
> 
> 1. Back up all important data to media that cannot be trashed by the
>    system.  I.e., tape or another system's disk.  Set tape Read/Only and
>    label.
> 
> 	/home
> 	/root
>         /etc
> 	/usr/local
> 	/var/spool/mail
> 	/var/spool/cron
> 
> 2. Backup dirs that commonly have config info and custom stuff to a tar file:
>         /etc
> 	/usr/local
> 	/var/spool/cron
> 
> 3. Do a complete install to empty partitions.
> 
> 4. Merge config files as needed under /etc:
> 
>         passwd, group, shadow, gshadow, hosts, hosts.allow, hosts.deny
> 	aliases (or mail/aliases)
> 	sendmail.cf (or mail/sendmail.cf)
> 	sendmail.mc (or mail/sendmail.mc)
> 	mail/
> 	config files for servers (samba, dhcp, apache)
> 
> Bob Toxen
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