> I would like to ask the $64,000 question. And I'll ask a 2 cent question...have you looked beyond the product numbers (grin)? > If the update utility does not work (even from one Minor Release Level), > why have it in the first place? Don't use it and it won't be there :-) I've used it many times to upgrade from 7.0->7.1 Other people have reported using it to upgrade from RedHat 6.2. But let's look at that "minor release". I'd be the first to agree that 7.1->7.2 doesn't describe what's gone on with the package. The changes are large, not "minor." The default print support has changed. For most, the version of XFree has changed (and not for the better from most reports). The version of KDE has taken a major leap and this means a whole host of Kapps that have been added. For many its the first time that Star Office would be part of a "normal" installation. Many of the peripheral apps have been upgraded to deal with the newer video. In other words, this is not your run of the mill 'dot' release and that's why people recommend a clean install. Frankly, I don't know what the big deal is. I installed 7.2 this morning. At the end of the install I had to setup adsl manually because the installer thinks my ethernet card is eth1 rather than eth0. This took me a couple minutes and after that I was completely functional as all my config files still remain in my /home directory and function. > I think that it goes a long way to say that when there are problems with > a Single Vendor (in this case Linux-Mandrake or Mandrake-soft) upgrading > from a Minor Release level (in this case 7.1 to 7.2) it puts a What needs to change is the mentality that you need to upgrade with each minor release. That's a customer thing, not an industry thing. The UNIX world has always done more regular updating than the MS world and opensource has taken that up a notch. > I've experienced this same issue back in 6.0 to 6.1, and at that time I > was told that it was being addressed. I give up, what was addressed? You should be asking that question BEFORE you upgrade and make a decision about whether to do so based on whether you need any of that stuff. > however, this is software. As we all know, software is easily > configurable. So I'll ask again, when is this upgrade procedure getting > fixed? It's not broken. Truthfully, it's simply faster to do clean installs than to do an upgrade and it always will. You're not installing just an operating system but rather a whole bunch of programs and tracing all the dependencies and doing version control at the same time is going to be a time-consuming task. Cheers --- Larry
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