On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 14:47, Luca Olivetti wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > >>>supposedly one inserts the new CD and selects LiveUpdate. YMMV. > >> > >>And then spend the best part of a weekend fixing the breakage (if you > >>manage to). > >> > >>Bye > > > > > > Actually I've had luck with it since about 8.1... in fact I upgraded a > > 7.2 box to 9.0 straight out. Problems are. > > I've not been so lucky: it didn't prompt to change the cd, and the only > hint were that "there was an error installing package xxxx". Of course > switching the vt I saw that it wasn't finding the packages because they > were on the 2nd or 3rd cd. > After a while (a *long* while) I had to stop the update (don't ask how, > I don't remember now), so I had roughly one third of the packages > updated. Luckily the system (a test machine anyway) was still bootable, > so I found that the urpmi sources were a mess. Hand edited them and > urpmi did the rest. > Not a pleasant experience. > > > > 1. If you have modified many of your config files you'll find .rpmnew > > extensions all over the place. Best way to find them is to update the > > locate dbase and do locate rpmnew. > > That's the first thing I do after I upgrade any package, moreso if I > upgraded the whole distro. Pity that rpm doesn't store the modifications > you made to the previous default config file to make it easier to apply > those to the new default config file. > > > > > 2. Live-update is way to slow... boot and do upgrade ... still slow but > > a factor of 5 faster than liveupdate. (it errors too much on the side of > > caution.) > > It's what I did on my "real" machine. Still there were things to fix > with urpmi afterwards but I don't remember (it wasn't as painful as > LiveUpdate). > I tried Debian and I didn't like it for variuos reasons, but I *do* like > the concept that you can seamlessly upgrade (and downgrade) the whole > distro without stopping and rebooting your machine (though in my limited > experience I failed miserably to upgrade from the stable debian to the > testing one). > > > > 3. If you did it from source (not source rpms) things in these areas > > might get mucked. RPM doesn't know from tarballs. > > Nope, I install everything with rpm. If there's no rpm I make myself one > (and rebuild it after the upgrade). > > > > > 4. Fastest way is to still do an install keeping your partitions and > > /home. (shear time factor.) > > But there are many things that are kept outside /home (e.g. under /var). > And all your customizations under /etc > > Bye
cp xxxxfile to /home//// keep partition. move back after install.
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