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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

> Being the hands-on people that we are, we would like to know more about 
> exactly what happens when we do the "upgrade".  Does the sympa.pl only 
> change the mysql db tables, or, does it modify any other files?  Do any 
> of the other daemons modify anything that is related to the upgrade?  
> We'd like to be able to carry out the upgrade pieces manually, before we 
> bring up the new version of sympa.

I can't really answer directly, but I will say that I would recommend just 
going ahead and doing the regular full upgrade install and letting Sympa do 
what it wants, as it's always done that very well.  I've done a number of 
upgrades on a couple of machines, including to 5.1.2 recently, and it's 
always gone flawlessly.  I think trying to be careful and do it piecemeal 
and manually is actually just asking for trouble, though of course it never 
hurts to understand what the software is doing.

Instead, I would just archive a copy of your sympa directory and database 
before the install, and move them back into place if anything goes wrong.

    ab