On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:45:42PM +1000, [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?
I wouldn't say that it can't fail, but I can't think of too many upgrades of Debian or Ubuntu boxes where it's completely done itself in, and I've done some pretty crazy stuff over the years -- custom packages, mixing releases, that sort of thing. On the other hand, I have seen some people who've managed to make a complete dog's breakfast of their systems such that the system won't upgrade, but I think that's more PEBKAC than PEID. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html