RedHat 7.1 has been out for a while. It is much better than 7.0 (as far as bugs are concerned). The old apps "might" continue working. Depends on the app. I haven't had too much trouble during a glibc upgrade. Perhaps you might upgrade and then recompile these apps. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "mjn" <mjn at umn.edu> To: "Twirling Pickles of Death" <tclug-list at lists.real-time.com> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:22 PM Subject: [TCLUG] Upgrade question... > So I stemmed my urges to upgrade from RedHat 6.1 to 7 because of the > impending release of 7.1. > > My question is this: How much is this upgrade going to suck given that i > have not installed all of the software on this machine via RPM? I have > one or two packages that NEED to work which were compiled and not RPM'd > most of the rest can limp for a few days without it causing a problem. > > Comments? Suggestions on steps to take to curb the suckage? > > Word. > > ____________________________ > Mike Neuharth > ADCS Technology Specialist > http://www.umn.edu/adcs > > E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu > Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com > http://supermonkeycollider.dyndns.org/ > ____________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >