John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > I recently battled for two weeks to get my kppp going after upgrading from
> > mandrake 5.3 to mandrake 6.0. I ended up re-installing 5.3, and had a good
> > connection about 2 minutes later. Appears that there's a problem with
> > version 6.0. Try upgrading to ver 6.1 .
> >
> Doing an upgrade from Mandrake 5.3 to 6.0 isn't really a
> good idea....too many changes in the directory structures,
> etc. Much better idea to wipe the drive and reinstall from
> scratch.
Forgive me for my naivete, but I thought that's what package management
was for! Certainly, the "Upgrade" installation doesn't do anything
differently than might be done by upgrading those packages by hand, does
it?
I would have imagined that an upgrade installation simply grabs a list
of your installed packages, installs any newer versions (in the process,
completely removing files from the old packages), and hands you back
your new system. Is this not true?
I haven't seen the "wipe the drive and reinstall" advice since somewhere
around Slackware 2.4...
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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