[olug] Clean Upgrade using RPMS?

[Nick Walter]

I've long operated by the rule "Never do an operating system upgrade". 
I have *never* seen an O/S upgrade program that did the job right.  They
all work fine if you have an absolutely stock unmodified installation of
the old O/S, but who has that?

Nowadays, if I need a newer O/S on a box I back up the important data
and config and reformat the drives in preparation for a clean install. 
This isn't a Linux specific rule either, I've use this technique for
Windows and various *nixes.

Nick Walter

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 16:25, CM Miller wrote:
> I find myself beating my head against the wall here. 
> 
> Upgraded a RH 8 box to RH 9 and wanted to use apt-get
> dist upgrade to do so, because I customized so much
> stuff on there and in the interest of time. 
> 
> Well, it didn't work.  Luckly I backed up all of my
> data and did a clean install.  Now going thru the
> process of setting everything back up to where I had
> it, which is taking time. 
> 
> Who has been sucessful in an rpm based upgraded using
> rpm or whatever rpm application, and would like to
> share with the group? 
> 
> Just as a side note, I run Knoppix on my laptop and
> apt-get runs well on there, but having a few problems
> on some packages, and wondering if apt-get dist
> upgrade would have problems on there as well?
> 
> thanks
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> 
> =====
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> 
> -CM Miller
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