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by **Akira Hanga** » Sat, 18 Oct 1997 04:00:00

Hello,

1) Do you have to upgrade Solaris 2.4 to 2.5 or 2.51, and then to 2.6?
Or can you upgrade directory from 2.4 to 2.6?

2) Do all the binaries compiled on 2.4 (using gcc 2.7.2.3) run on 2.5/6?

Thank you.

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by **Jay Sco** » Tue, 21 Oct 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>Hello,

>1) Do you have to upgrade Solaris 2.4 to 2.5 or 2.51, and then to 2.6?
>Or can you upgrade directory from 2.4 to 2.6?

all of the earlier (2.5.1 and below) upgrades tried to upgrade you from
any previous release in the 2.x series. i expect the 2.6 does, too.
therefore, i would expect that you can go from 2.4 to 2.6; certainly if
i was in your place that's what i'd try, and i'd expect it to work.

Quote:
>2) Do all the binaries compiled on 2.4 (using gcc 2.7.2.3) run on 2.5/6?

i think there have been some snags involving the way things may have
been linked. as i understand it, a recompile will fix it. (you
won't have to alter the code.)
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by **Wilhelm Muelle** » Sat, 25 Oct 1997 04:00:00

I did an update from 2.4 to 2.6 and encountered three annoying problems:

-- Somehow, libXm.so got lost; I had to remove and add SUNWmfrun manually.
If you install CDE, you'll notice this happened to you when CDE login
fails to start during the first reboot.

-- hotjava was installed incompletely; pkgrm/pkgadd SUNWdthj helped. You'll
notice this when the Solaris registration service simply does nothing or
answerbook2 will complain.

-- more seriously, I have some funny automount maps which (ab)use the
replication facility with something like

* localhost,server:/export/something

which worked since 2.3 and a lot of non-sun automounters, but now failed:
whenever one of the listed machines is the local host (no matter by what
name), the automounter will never look for directories on other servers.

There's a patch for that now, patch id 105472.

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