On 2012-02-27 15:35, William Gardella wrote: > Stefan, > > In my experience and understanding, Debian Live persistence does present > some issues with upgrading the underlying live system. The files found > in snapshots/persistence partitions always pre-empt their equivalents on > the image, which Debian Live seems to always assume to be older than the > snapshot. So if you have been apt-get upgrading and installing lots of > software to live-rw, for example, that will prevent any newer package > versions on the ISO from being seen. With home-rw, there shouldn't be > as big of a headache, but of course if you have altered the > grml-installed configuration files, those versions will remain and > preempt the ISO (you will have to copy over new grml user configuration > manually if you want it). I don't know about GRMLCFG because I don't > use it, but my guess would be that it will continue to replace the > relevant bits of /etc/ exactly as it did on your previous ISO version. > > So I guess it will probably save some headaches to wipe live-rw, but > home-rw should be okay. > > Best, > Will
Thanks, that makes sense. I think I'll just play it safe and wipe all the snapshot partitions before I upgrade. It's unlikely that I'll make major adjustments to the system anyway, apart from installing a few packages and storing shell scripts in $HOME. - stefan _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/
