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Steve Campbell wrote:
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> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>> Steve Campbell wrote:
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>>> I'm running a few boxes with differing versions of Centos on them.
>>> Most are Centos 3, some are newer Centos 5, and a few are the older
>>> RH 9 boxes. I'm gradually implementing Bacula on all of these boxes,
>>> and have been using 2.0.3 Bacula and always compiled from source.
>>> After reading the latest announcement, I think I might want to
>>> upgrade to 2.4.0 (I only use disk backups, no tapes). I read in the
>>> announcement that I should be able to use my older clients (fd) with
>>> the newer sd and dir, so that part of it should be OK if I update my
>>> sd, fd, and dir on my primary machine.
>>>
>>> My question(s) is that I'd like to start using  RPMs. Can anyone
>>> offer up opinions please on whether I should or shouldn't. If I stay
>>> source, how should I upgrade? If I use RPMs, how should I remove the
>>> old source-compiled version. What RPMs should I use for the above
>>> mentioned versions of Centos? My sd and dir are Centos 3, and the
>>> file directors are all of the above mentioned. Does the bacula-client
>>> rpm cover the FD situations. Is the el3 rpm usable on Centos 5? Or
>>> should(can) I just rebuild the source RPM everywhere?
>>>     
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>> I think you should use the corresponding ELx RPM. There are RPM's for
>> all RHEL current variants, if I'm not mistaken. The ones I need are in
>> - -fschwarz. I would recommend RPM's, for the reasons you described --
>> upgrades then become trivial. You will not need to worry about removing
>> the source version right away as everything should install in different
>> places. Just make sure the startup script does not start the source copy.
>>
>>  
>>> Sorry for the all-in-one question length. Hopefully, for someone who
>>> has done this, it'll be a simple and easy answer.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for the time and efforts.
>>>
>>> Steve Campbell
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>>   
> Ryan,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> I didn't even notice the other contrib folders.
> 
> I think I would like to remove the old first just to prevent something
> common between the two styles from being deleted. Do I remove the source
> with " make clean " or what?

Steve,

Always copy the mailing list. I answer as time permits, which isn't
necessarily that often.

I think you may be left removing it manually -- I'm not actually sure.
Some programs have make uninstall.

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