My Debian boxes have always been smooth upgrading, never a problem, and my gentoo ones as well. Gentoo won't change the configuration straight away (you update and then run etc-update to go through the config changes) As long as you don't hit -5 as the option for etc update you'll be in for a smooth update.
I think the point is that with debian and gentoo you get a rolling update (updates to apps as they come, not all at once), so any problems you might have with a package are dealt with then, and you don't get any compounding problems because of it (generally, not always) On 6/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 13 Jun, luke wrote: > AFAIK, no Linux distro is considered quite safe to upgrade from one > release to the next (e.g. from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 10.0, or FC 4 to FC 5). I turned up this discussion about this very topic: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/14/152237 in which numerous respondents say that Debian and Gentoo and Mandrake (and Arch Linux) can all have the distro itself upgraded. So, a question for the Debian, Gentoo etc. users: have any of you have had a problem when you tried to get the system to upgrade itself from an older release (e.g. Debian 3.0 to 3.1)? Or does it always work perfectly smoothly? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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