Re: [leaf-user] upgrade 6.2.7 to 7.0.0-rc2

[marko <le...@me...>]

On Tuesday, 6 October 2020 7:39:54 AM AEDT Timothy Wegner wrote:
> I have upgraded from 6.2.7 to 7.0.0-rc2 without incident. I have a fairly
> simple firewall setup, with the following in leaf.cfg:
> 
> LRP=" license local dhcpcd keyboard shorwall dnsmasq bbntpd sshd ssh sshkey
> sftp lighttpd webconf elvis hdsupp patch haveged"
> 
> My normal method of upgrading is to copy the new distribution files onto a
> previously used USB with syslinux already installed, then to copy leaf.cfg
> and configdb.lrp from my current setup. This is very quick to do, and
> almost always works, and leaves my old setup undisturbed on the old usb in
> case I need to go back. Occasionally a major upgrade requires starting with
> the default configuration and then changing it to what I need, which is
> much harder, but hasn't happened in a while.
> 
> Simple question, is it ok to upgrade from 6.2.7 to 7.0.0-rc2by just copying
> leaf.cfg and configdb.lrp? Seems to be fine this time.
> 
> Thanks for everything,
> 
> Tim
> 
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Hi Tim, 

I have done this successfully from 6.2 to 7.0  
I had a long chain of upgrades where I did this over many years and the only 
time it did not work when moving to version 6.  Over time, the config files 
change significantly and you will not see new options appearing.  

My new policy is to modify new config files with each major version change.  
That said, I do a quick and dirty copy first and then modify another boot stick 
with clean config files.   

cheers
Marko