jpackage 1.5 to 1.6

headers Richard Bullington-McGuire | 1 Apr 2005 23:24

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le vendredi 01 avril 2005 à 12:03 -0500, Jack Tanner a écrit :
>> I'm running jpackage 1.5 on an FC2 box. I just learned that I need Ant
>> 1.6.x, and I figure the easiest way to get it is to upgrade to jpackage 1.6.
>>
>> Will the upgrade work if I just point to the 1.6 jpackage repo and do a
>> yum update?
>
> It will probably mostly work, and there will probably be some problem
> spots too. You should plan for a bit of manual fixup.
>
> (ie don't do it on a critical system that will need to be used at once)
>
> However since jpp 1.5 won't change anymore you will have to upgrade
> sooner or later, and it shouldn't be overly hard to do either. The only
> thing I'm not sure of is if it's easier to upgrade of remove all jpp 1.5
> packages and install 1.6 from scratch. That probably depend on your
> package set. If you can wait a little it's probably worth doing a FC4
> upgrade first.

Last week, I attempted this (JPackage 1.5 -> 1.6 on FC2) and it Just 
Worked, at least with the set of RPMs that we have installed. Has anyone 
else been lucky this way?

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