On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Matthew Barnes <mbar...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 12:00 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: >> It seems to me that all the people who have had problems with the >> upgrade process recently have been Ubuntu users and I wonder if there is >> something they've done in the packaging or configuration that is causing >> problems. > > I'm still a little confused as to why so many users seem to feel the > need to backup and restore their personal data just to upgrade their > operating system in place. Backing up of course is a prudent safety > measure, but if the upgrade goes smoothly there should be no need to > restore the backup. > For my part, I just backed it up (file system copy to another folder) to ensure nothing got lost. I had no need to restore that.
> Are there actually distro installers that don't allow you to upgrade > without nuking your home directory, or do some installers not make that > option clear enough, or am I just misunderstanding the problem? > With Ubuntu, upgrades are frequently problematic and re-installs work better. This is as documented by the Ubuntu folks. > There does seem to be a large concentration of Ubuntu users reporting > these kinds of problems, but that might just be a statistical anomaly > rather than something Ubuntu is doing wrong. > I don't know if it's "wrong," but it is a pain. I've been using Ubuntu for almost two years solid now and upgrades are invariably reported in the discussion lists as problematic. However, before that I was using CentOS, and upgrades were also discouraged there, for similar reasons. I do maintain a separate /home from my root, and that has saved me a lot of grief, but not always. When I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, then copied all my files over from my desktop, something broke the system and I never figured out what - it was something in my startup files that works on my desktop and doesn't on my laptop. I found a way around that, but it was painful for an hour or so. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
