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Re: Upgrade Ubuntu server will purge OpenLDAP data

* Robert Heller:

> This is the reason *RedHat* Enterprise Linux is never recomended to do
> upgrades across major versions. The recomended practice is allways a fresh
> install.

That's mostly because Red Hat does not want to support such
installations of unknown genealogy.  Technically, in-place upgrades
for most systems work, as long as you take care of the usual offenders
(e.g., Berkeley DB, as Michael pointed out, and PostgreSQL).