> From: Denis Havlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Because "install" means "wipe my HD and install the new system", while
> "upgrade" means "please give my old system a face lift, but do not ruin
> it". In my opinion "Upgrade" should be made much better - in the future
> there will be much more need for upgrades than for the clean installs,
> especially if they start selling pre-installed linux PC-s everywhere.
...
> In this way, one would be sure to get a fully functional system in the
> end, even if he tries to upgrade from Suse 5.2 to Mandrake 7.5.
>
> As it is, "Upgrade" does more-or-less an "rpm -U " and one has to hope
> everything goes well - which it does not, as I have painfully found out.
> The worse of all is that some of the bugs which appear after an "Upgrade"
> from RH X.Y to Mandrake 6.1 are very subtle, and not easy to find and
> eliminate later.
>
> cheers
> Denis
Completely agree here. You could add this to the list of problems: in
my (and I believe, many others') case, there was file conflict between
some packages - which is, of course, bad, but happens sometimes. What
really pissed me off is that I didn't get any error messages like
"Install of kdelibs failed" during upgrade, so I thought everything was
OK. I had to look in install log to find some (rather cryptic) error
messages coming from cpio, with no mention of file conflict, then to
run rpm --verify, rpm --replacefiles, etc.
Sasha
