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Re: Upgrading from 5.10.7 to Gnus CVS
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Reiner Steib |
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Re: Upgrading from 5.10.7 to Gnus CVS |
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Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:13:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.
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> 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.
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> Are there any caveats I should be aware of before the upgrade?
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> 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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