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RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure

To: "Ian Tobin" <itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 17:40:46 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Tobin
> Sent: 15 May 2007 15:42
> To: Petersson, Mats; Nico Kadel-Garcia
> Cc: Mike Wright; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Upgrade Proceedure
> 
> The question is if doing an upgrade do you actually have to uninstall
> the files? I mean if its an upgrade then wouldn't just 
> untaring the dist
> directory and running the install thing work?

Most of the time that will be fine. I've had cases where it's not
working (the case in particular is if you install a 64-bit on top of
32-bit Xen - which will be entirely broken if you do that, because it
finds a mixture of 32-bit and 64-bit shared libraries, and that doesn't
work!)

--
Mats
> 
> thanks
> 
[snip]



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