Re: [Evolution] Desperate to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4

[Andy Allen <andy allen virgin net>]

Hi Pete,
Thanks for the reply - I take your point! I'll try moving the Sent
folder elsewhere as you suggest and see if that fixes the problem -
great if it does.

Andy

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:38, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 11:19 +0100, Andy Allen wrote:
> > I'm desperately trying to upgrade from RedHat 9 to CentOS 4.4, but the
> > one thing that's really causing me problems is migrating from Evolution
> > 1.2.2 (bundled with RedHat 9) to 2.0.2 (bundled with CentOS 4.4.
>
> The reason you aren't getting much help is because these versions are
> ancient.  The people who knew about them worked for Ximian, then Ximian
> was bought by Novel, and the people who worked on Evolution at the time
> have since been deployed elsewhere.
>
> > When running Evolution 2.0.2 for the first time, with Evolution 1.2.2
> > folders and files in evolution folder in same partition, the automatic
> > migration process starts up and seems to run OK, migrating all folders
> > up to Sent folder successfully. Then disaster - it terminates fatally
> > (error message "..quit unexpectedly..." - no indication of what the
> > problem is).
>
> Try moving the Sent folder from ~/evolution and see if it upgrades
> everything successfully.  Once you have the bulk of the system in place
> you can import the Sent folder later - it is just an mbox file afterall.
>
> > I've even thought about installing Evolution 1.2.2 in CentOS 4.4
> > (because it works OK for my purposes!), but there are too many problems
> > with this - even though I have the Evolution 1.2.2 rpm, it won't install
> > in CentOS because of missing packages. I really want to upgrade my main
> > system to CentOS 4.4 for the improvements it offers over RedHat 9, but
> > this email thing is a real sticking point at the moment.
>
> Why don't you upgrade to CentOS 5 ?
>
> P.
>
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