Atomicorp

Hi,
I have a FC2 Plesk box with ART's MySQL 4.0.24, PHP 4.3.1 and PSA 7.5.4. Yum is also installed & configured to use ART's repositories. All working fine. I'd like to ugrade MySQL to 4.1.14 but before I get cracking, I'd just like to check out that what I'm going to do is viable and whether there are any precautions I should take.

So, I plan to run 'yum update mysql mysql-server'. Is that all I should do? Do I need to install 'mysql-compa't or 'php-mysql' for that matter? Sorry if I'm sounding a bit thicko on this - normally I'd do it, blow it, try and fix it and learn as a result but as this is a heavily populated production server I'm erring on the side of caution.

Also, what's the situation with 4.1 and passwords - i've read stuff about this and I'm a bit confused as to what I should do (if anything) post-upgrade with respect to passwords.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Simon

yum update should do the trick, that will update everything and pick up the tertiary rpms as well.

You'll probably want to set old_passwords=1 in my.cnf as well.

Thanks Scott, I'll give it a whirl then.

All the best,

Simon