Upgrading from 5.10.7 to Gnus CVS

Upgrading from 5.10.7 to Gnus CVS

[Neil Woods]

I recently installed Gnus CVS (No Gnus 0.3) on one of my machines on my
local network. It was a new installation, and everything works fine.

I would like to now upgrade to Gnus CVS on the machine I am currently
using. I have read the GNUS-NEWS file and it mentions that downgrading
is generally unsafe, so obviously I want to make sure the upgrade
succeeds.

I am currently using the latest Gnus, from Debian unstable.

Are there any caveats I should be aware of before the upgrade?

Should I remove my ~/.newsrc.eld file before proceeding?

Thanks for any advice.
-- 
Neil

Re: Upgrading from 5.10.7 to Gnus CVS

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Mar 19 2005, Neil Woods wrote:

> I recently installed Gnus CVS (No Gnus 0.3) on one of my machines on my
> local network. It was a new installation, and everything works fine.
>
> I would like to now upgrade to Gnus CVS on the machine I am currently
> using. I have read the GNUS-NEWS file and it mentions that downgrading
> is generally unsafe, so obviously I want to make sure the upgrade
> succeeds.

The developers cannot guarantee that downgrading works.  For
upgrading, there are conversion functions based on the old and new
Gnus version numbers.

> I am currently using the latest Gnus, from Debian unstable.
>
> Are there any caveats I should be aware of before the upgrade?
>
> Should I remove my ~/.newsrc.eld file before proceeding?

No.

If your mail/news data are important in some way, you should make a
backup of .newsrc*, Mail/ and News/ before upgrading.

Personally, I wouldn't expect any major problems when switching from
Oort Gnus (5.10.*) to No Gnus and back.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Upgrading from 5.10.7 to Gnus CVS

[Neil Woods]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

> If your mail/news data are important in some way, you should make a
> backup of .newsrc*, Mail/ and News/ before upgrading.
>
> Personally, I wouldn't expect any major problems when switching from
> Oort Gnus (5.10.*) to No Gnus and back.

Many thanks for your comments. As can be seen from the headers, upgrade
successful without any apparent problems.

Thanks again.
-- 
Neil