Upgrading ultrapenguin to rh-5.1

Upgrading ultrapenguin to rh-5.1

[Jan Rychter]

I'm considering an upgrade of ultrapenguin-1.0.9 to RedHat-5.1 -- any
particular pitfalls I should watch out for ? Would redhat's standard
upgrade procedure work ?

thanks,
--Jan

Re: Upgrading ultrapenguin to rh-5.1

[David S. Miller]

   From: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
   Date: 	Tue, 30 Jun 1998 11:23:31 +0200 (MET DST)

   > I'm considering an upgrade of ultrapenguin-1.0.9 to RedHat-5.1 -- any
   > particular pitfalls I should watch out for ? Would redhat's standard
   > upgrade procedure work ?

   It depends if you have a 32bit SPARC or 64bit. If the latter, then you
   cannot do that.

Also even for 32-bit sparc, you will lose a number of bug fixes we
have done which I wasn't able to merge into rh's 5.1 rpms in time.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

Re: Upgrading ultrapenguin to rh-5.1

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> I'm considering an upgrade of ultrapenguin-1.0.9 to RedHat-5.1 -- any
> particular pitfalls I should watch out for ? Would redhat's standard
> upgrade procedure work ?

It depends if you have a 32bit SPARC or 64bit. If the latter, then you
cannot do that.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Re: Upgrading ultrapenguin to rh-5.1

[Jan Rychter]

>>>>> "David" = David S Miller <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com>:
 >> I'm considering an upgrade of ultrapenguin-1.0.9 to RedHat-5.1 --
 >> any particular pitfalls I should watch out for ? Would redhat's
 >> standard upgrade procedure work ?

 Jakub> It depends if you have a 32bit SPARC or 64bit. If the latter,
 Jakub> then you cannot do that.

 David> Also even for 32-bit sparc, you will lose a number of bug fixes
 David> we have done which I wasn't able to merge into rh's 5.1 rpms in
 David> time.

So basically, what you're saying is that I should stick to ultrapenguin
as it will always be more up to date than RedHat ?

BTW, at the moment I only use it on an Ultra, but I also have two 32bit
machines to upgrade from RH4.2.

--J.