Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Now that F8 is reaching end-of-life, I need to find a way to upgrade > to F10. > > In the past, I always did clean installs figuring it would make sure > that I truly got all the latest configs, that no crud accumulated, and > that I had a clean version of the latest-and-greatest. The downside is > that it takes me 50+ hours to redo (and test) all my customizations of > config files. > > So, I was wondering what has been people's experiences with doing just > a distribution upgrade? > - What happens to old config files? (Are they overwritten, are they > left as is? Are they auto-updated somehow? Is a rpmnew file left > there?) > > - What happens to deprecated or obsoleted packages? What about > config options within a package that change or are > deprecated/obsoleted? > > - Does old junk tend to accumulate or is the distribution upgrade > process pretty good at removing files that were installed (or > created) by earlier rpms but no longer necessary? > > - Have people had stability issues with doing a distribution upgrade > or does it usually "just work" out of the box? > > - How long does it take you to be up and running with an upgrade? > (start-to-finish) > > - Do you see any problems in skipping F9 and going directly F8->F10? > > Thanks > >
I use the be the type of person that had to compile everything from source. Given this was SunOS/Solaris, but I needed to be in control of every nuance. When I moved to linux I did the same thing for a while, with slackware. Then I discovered how much of my life I could get back by just using rpm and a few repos. Man, what a time saver. I had the same battle for a long time with upgrade vs clean install. I would always just clean install. I eventually moved to upgrades for just the reason you point out, having to reconfigure *everything*. It was eating up too much time. I've upgraded from F7 -> F9 and F9 -> F10 (2 machines) without any issues. The OCD part of me still has a little problem when you do "rpm -qa" and see fc7, fc8, fc9 and fc10 rpms, but considering I saved myself 2-4 days with a clean install, I'll live with it ;) Scott _______________________________________________ atrpms-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
