On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:50:10PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > softwatt <softw...@gmx.com> wrote:
> This leads to a newish trend in systems administration, facilitated by > widespread use of virtualisation or container techniques: never upgrade > a system to a new release, just "spawn" a new and fresh installed one > and copy your data/application/whatever over. > > Combined with tools like Puppet/Chef/Ansible this provides you with a > reproducible and always "factory fresh" operating system without the > cobwebs of years of past upgrades in the basement. > > But I digress. Sven, please digress. Just what do you mean by "spawn"? I normally reinstall the operating system on a refreshed HD with a Debian Installer each time there is an upgrade. Then I copy over my custom directories (such as /usr/local/share) and copy the configurations in /home/ and /etc/. How does this differ from your "spawn"? Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140918185026.gf31...@historicalmaterialism.info
