From: Ivan Fetch (sunmanagers@cs.du.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 14:07:27 EDT
Hi all,
I'll be faced with this project in the coming months and wanted to see
what you all think. We have an E250 running Solaris 8, along with various
SunFreeware packages and software we compiled ourselves (all in
/usr/local). I am pondering upgrading the server from Solaris 8 to
Solaris 9 vs. installing Solaris 9 from scratch - I have never been much
of an upgrade guy, I prefer to keep my data partitions (home, mail spool,
Etc) and instal from scratch wherever possible. My concern in doing this
however, is that I would still like all of my 3rd party software in
/usr/local to work once I upgrade. The compiled stuff will probably work
fine (depending on any configuration files which may live in /etc),
however I would like to retain the ability to uninstall or upgrade one or
more SunFreeware packages at a later date. IF I install Solaris 9 from
scratch, there goes my package database correct? I can't scheme a way to
keep package info for the SunFreeware packages so I can later interject
them into a new package database (after installing Solaris 9). I can't
just copy over the package database from Solaris 8 for obvious reasons (it
will hose the package database from the Solaris 9 install).
What are folks typically doing in this kind of situation? I look
forward to your responces, and of course will summarize.
Thanks,
Ivan Fetch.
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