[ic] What would be required to move from 4.8.7 to 4.9.?

[Andrew Rich]

> > Hi All
> > I have a nice stable 4.8.7 on RH 7.3 + Perl 5.6.1
> > Originally a 4.8.5 install which has been updated to 4.8.6 
> then 4.8.7.
> > It is a while ago but I believe I installed the 4.8.5 using 
> RPMs as have the
> > updates.
> > A few questions:
> > Would I be able to install 4.9.? without affecting my 4.8.7?
> > Can they both run at same time? ie have sites on each.
> > What is going to break moving the 4.8.7 site across?
> > it is 99% foundation demo at the moment.
> > Regards
> > _______________________________________
> > Andrew Rich
> 
> I just upgraded and everything on the frontend works fine. 
> There were some issues with 
> the admin but nothing that couldn't be fixed. For example the 
> orderline status page 
> wasn't functioning properly so I just used the page from 
> 4.8.7. All I did to upgrade was 
> to backup ic completely (catalogs + source + settings) and 
> used the rpm upgrade 
> option. I did have to remove the history scan usertag from 
> the old catalog.cfg files. No 
> other problems, so far. How ever you do this just make sure 
> you backup your current 
> information.
> 
> Regards,
> Gurs

Did you have to run any RPM remove.

Regards 
Andrew Rich