[lug] RedHat 9?

[Philip Cooper]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:59:42AM -0600, Elyse Grasso wrote:
> Just received the May KRUD disks, which are now based off RedHat 9. The 
> transition 7.x to 8 was messy (there's stuff I still haven't gotten 
> working again since the update). And now I'm using my laptop for work 
> related stuff and don't have a lot of time to spend retweaking it. 
> 
> Does anyone have any feelings for how ugly this transition is likely to 
> be? Upgrade at lunch? Upgrade this evening? Wait for the long weekend? 
> Run away screaming and reconsider switching to mandrake (since I'm a 
> KDE user...)?
> 
> I know that RedHat 9 breaks qmail... any other gotchas to watch out for?

Didn't know about qmail.  Hmmm.
I'm also about to upgrade. I'm taking my last machine and upgrading
from WindoZZZ to Red Had (I think).  My current plan to to beg for a
helpful soul to bring RH 8 cd's to the next Boulder Hacking Society
Mtg.  

I use Zope and offer the following snippets from lists over there for
your consideration.  Not that you use Zope or python,  but the issues
with threading and RH upgrades might impact some of your favorite apps
also (ie YMMV).

<snip>
>>> I have problems - *which freaks me out* - to start more than one
>>> Zope thread on RedHat 9.0. What I tried:
>>> 
>>>    a) upgraded kernel to 2.4.20-13.9
>>>    b) upgraded glibc,glibc-common,glibc-devel to 2.3.2-27.9
>>>    c) tried "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1"

.......reinstall, recompile set flags stand on one foot and bark like
a dog.  I'm sure it's all simple stuff for most but I'll take a pass.

In another snip:

>>> 1) Upgrade from RedHat 9.0 standard kernel 2.4.20-8 to 2.4.20-13.9
>>> and upgrade your glic and glic-common to 2.3.2-27.9. Be carefull
>>> at this point and choose the right kernel and(!) glibc for your
>>> processor type. If you have an i686, but install i386 packages,
>>> your system will useless FOR EVER.

OUCH!!!

And maybe someone else has a take on: 

>>> ...Red Hat has admittedly become much more agressive in their
>>> upgrades.  They want those requiring stability to purchase their
>>> Enterprise versions, while the bleeding edge folk can stick with
>>> their "regular" distribution.

On second thought ... if no one has RH 8 disks to bring to Caffe Sole
on thurs are there any debian disks out there :-?

-- 
Phil