Hi Mark and all of you suffering from upgrades,
In the not too distant past, I belonged to the same group as you. If
I saw new packages (usually rpms) of the latest and greatest, I
went ahead to installed them, and a lot of times ended up reinstalling
everything, sometimes the whole system. There was always some
problem with these packages. Sometimes fixable, sometimes to find
the cure was soo long and bothersome, that a quick re-install got me
up an running much quicker. Of course, this way you cannot learn.
You have no idea what caused the problem. But you have to have your
working system at any time! You want to access emails, surf the net,
whatever is your daily task on your computer...Certainly, for most
of us, not to look at bugs in kde2.1beta. For some people, yes that
is, but I think they all use the common sense strategy I want to talk about...
Then I got tired of it and started to build a new system, what is
becoming better and better and still keeps every changes I made in
the configuration files, upgrades etc. I am still going for the
greatest and latest to try. But I have now two identical system, and
I ALWAYS install the actual new *very stable* <GRIN> betas on the
experimental system. And yes, a lot of times there are problems,
having two systems did not make me a "real Linux guru", but
certainly saved me a lot of "BIG annoying pain in the A...". Do you know
why? Because I still have my production system, and everything WORKS
on that!! And yes I might have to reinstall my "bleeding edge
-upgraded" system running KDE2.01 alpha-beta-gamma :-)), but this is
just a little playing for me, and I can decide that the promised new
upgrade did not work, or gave just a very little advantage, and it
is not worth to go for...Or it is installed beautifully, and stable
and ready to use it on my production system.
I only have two different root partition, my /usr/local and home
partitions reside on different partitions so I can use them from both
Linux system, if I want...
To be free of the "BIG annoying pain" you only need 1.5 Gigabyte
hard disk space. Trust me, it is worth it.
Happy new year!
Viktor
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:58:09PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
> I know...I'm replying to m own post, but...O well.
>
> As a followup to this thread the KDE upgrade from 2.0 to 2.0.1 was a
> total bust! The dame thing screwed up my partition tables. (And I'd
> really like to know how that happens.) The re-install took 8 hours...I'm
> ready for that C4 now. (?:-P)->-<. It's just not worth the aggrivation
> , time and trouble that upgrading causes.
>
> Mark
>
