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Re: redhat 7.2 install/upgrade experiences?



On Sun, Nov 25, 2001, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote about "Re: redhat 7.2 install/upgrade experiences?":
> Redhat 7.2 is really Redhat 8.0 - Lots of surprises that should not be in
> a minor release, like iproute's "ip" instead of "ifconfig".

I still have ifconfig...

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
$ rpm -qf =ifconfig                          
net-tools-1.60-3

ip (from the iproute packages) is also available, but I never used it and
continue to use ifconfig.

> get the new IP address?. Watch out for the default ipchains firewalling
> that they slip in also. This fakes out a lot of folks who can't figure out
> why they can't simply mount an NFS file system.

Setting a firewall is an option while installing the system, and if you
pay attention you can just answer "no firewall" (I don't remember if the
default is firewall on or off). If I remember correctly, Redhat 7.1 also
had the same firewall option.
If I remember correctly, when upgrading an old system you're not even given
the firewall option, so this may not be an issue at all.

>Also, be sure to snoop
> around in /etc/sysconfig, some stuff moved there that used to be
> otherwise. It's really very poor configuration management on Redhat's
> part IMHO. You might even think of staying with 7.1, it's much more
> friendly to 6.2 users than 7.2.

After every Redhat upgrade, make sure you read /tmp/upgradelog (or whatever
you call them), and look at the system for ".rpmnew" and ".rpmsave" and
".rpmorig" files, to see what Redhat's automatic upgrade failed to make
sense of. I've upgraded the computer I'm writing this on from Redhat 6.2
to 7.0, 7.1 and then 7.2, and never had more than small problems I could
resolve in an hour or two.

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