Re: mysql 5.0
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:32:38AM -0600, Steve Block wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:56:37AM +0800, linux china wrote:
> >Yes, My system is woody, 3.0 r4. could I apt-get upgrade, then system will
> >be at the same level as sarge? and I could install mysql 5.0 from backport,
> >I not very sure.
>
> You could upgrade to sarge from woody, but I can't tell you that you
> _should_ do so. There's always the possibility of breaking something. If
> you do decide to make the upgrade, the general recommendations I gleaned
> from this list when sarge was released as stable follow:
>
> Install aptitude, if you haven't. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to
> point to stable or sarge rather than woody. Update your package list
> with aptitude update, and then attempt the system upgrade with aptitude
> dist-upgrade. You could use apt-get as well, but my understanding was
> that aptitude was better at resolving the sort of dependency issues you
> can get into during a system upgrade.
It might be better to:
get Woody up to date
change sources.list to point to Sarge,
apt-get install aptitude
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
aptitude dist-upgrade
If on a production server, plan an outage window!
--
Chris.
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