Linux Toolbox, Bull Freeware, Upgrades and their intersection

[RodKnowlton]

I'm have a machine with about twenty freeware.* lpps from the Bull repository.

I'm upgrading it from 4.3.3 to 5.1 and it seems that the prudent thing to do is uninstall them before migrating.

Any feedback or tales of terror related to any of the following questions would be greatly appreciated.

Should I reinstall with lpps from Bull, or from the AIX Toolbox for Linux?

If ATL is preferred, and they're not all available from ATL, do the Bull packages and ATL packages play well together?

Am I being too cautious, removing the freeware.* lpps before migrating?

Thanks in advance,

Rod

 

[RodKnowlton]

Never mind.

Turns out the links on the 5.1 download page at

http://www.bullfreeware.com

link to the files in the 4.3 download directory!

I'm just gonna let those bad boys ride the storm out.

If it craters, it's just a bootlist change anyway (thank you alt_disk_install cloning ).



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L

 

[Yegolev]

its a bit late i know... but we always just upgrade over anything in our way: nmon, openssh, SAP (hehe)... aside from the occasional move to 64-bit or touchy prog (lsof) we have been fine.

IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation

 

[RodKnowlton]

Thanks anyway, Yegolev. That's just what I did, and afterward had to upgrade lsof, switched to the toolbox version of openshh because it's at a higher level, and reinstalled perl modules using CPAN.

All told, pretty smooth.

Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L

 

[Yegolev]

ah yes, we avoid perl modules not in the AIX distro for the most part. those are a pain, particularly in a secure env where CPAN does not work. however i did not know the modules were touchy, did all give problems or just one or two? i'm only academically curious, but there is one machine where perl is a real issue.

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[RodKnowlton]

They were add-ons, like PDF::Create, Text::Metaphone, and MySQL related stuff.

Even those might not have been a problem (or the problem would have been time shifted) if perl hadn't been at 5.00503 before the upgrade.

It was nice enough, though, to leave the old distribution's files in place, so identifying the modules that needed to be reinstalled was easy.



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L