Any advice on big upgrade lenny->jessie?
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
hmh at debian.org
Fri May 12 17:26:56 UTC 2017
On Fri, 12 May 2017, Boylan, Ross wrote:
> I tried to build db4.2-util from source on jessie, but couldn't even
Try installing the old binary packages. That often works on stuff that
doesn't have nasty reverse-dependencies.
> get configure to run:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/05/msg00069.html. Maybe I
> could have just installed the deb from wheezy, but that didn't seem
> trustworthy.
ldd the resulting binaries if the install goes through. If it is just
glibc and berkeley DB libs, it will work just fine.
> Instead I ran the wheezy system in a chroot, copied the current
> cyrus-upgrade-db script into it, edited upgrade cyrus-db-types.txt to
> change all the berkeley db's to skiplist (except I left the DBENGINE
> line intact) and ran the upgrade script in the chroot. I had to alter
> the path to cvt_cyrusdb so the script could find it.
>
> I copied the resulting files to the new system and deleted
> cyrus-db-types.active.
Yeah, that will do it :)
> My next step is to install sasl, and then I'll try installing cyrus.
Good luck...
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Henrique Holschuh
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