[ale] Fedora 9

[William Fragakis]

It may be easier to move things to a Centos 5 box which is basically F6.
F6 to f9 can be done (that's what I'm using now) but moving over to
Centos eliminates (or postpones for a longer while)  chasing the Fedora
tail of depracation.

btw, 6 to 7 was the hardest of all the moves.

wf

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 00:30 -0400, Jay Finch wrote:
> Hey Mike,
>     Can you think of any "gotchas" if I was wanting to update a FC6
> mail server to F9?  I've been meaning to do something about it since
> FC6 was deprecated, but I haven't taken that plunge yet. :)
> 
>     Any advice would be appreciated.  
> 
> Thanks!
> Jay
> 
> Michael H. Warfield wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 19:13 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
> >   
> > > Has anybody tried Fedora 9 yet? Any particular problems with the 
> > > install? Any suggestions as to what to avoid?
> > >     
> > 
> > 	I've got several installations now.
> > 
> > 	A few gotchas.
> > 
> > 	If you are doing an upgrade make sure you have updated to the latest
> > updates first (especially if you love Emacs [yuck])!
> > 
> > 	If you are thinking about doing a live yum upgrade from F8 to F9, read
> > the Fedora FAQ and follow those instructions carefully.  It works and it
> > works well.  Make sure you do the appropriate "yum clean all" steps.
> > 
> > 	If you are thinking about trying out the new "preupgrade" that is
> > suppose to be an alternative to a live yum upgrade, I would pass.
> > IMHO...  Not ready for prime time yet and no real advantage over live
> > yum upgrade and you will still be down for an hour or so.
> > 
> > 	64 bit live yum upgrade was a bit of a pain due to some lingering 32
> > bit applications.  Just removing them and anything (32 bit only) that
> > depends on them and you're cool.
> > 
> > 	If you have both dhclient and dhcp (server) installed on the system,
> > you're going to run into a conflict in the upgrade.  Just remove the one
> > you are not using.
> > 
> > 	If you are using IPSec (OpenSWAN) with X.509 certificates, beware.  I'm
> > still sorting through the debris where that cratered.  I had to
> > downgrade OpenSWAN back to the F8 version.
> > 
> > 	On a limited number of systems, when you reboot you won't have X
> > Windows.  Just remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf and try again.  They're trying
> > to go configureless and some configurations and cards (ATI and maybe
> > others) are causing problems where no configuration file at all works.
> > 
> > 	I've now done close to 12 systems in the last few days.  Only real
> > heartburn was when my VPN went down because of the IPSec nonsense.
> > 
> > 	Mike
> >   
> > 
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