On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:59 PM, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Debian and its derivatives (including Ubuntu) are much more robust
with
regard to partial upgrades. No reinstalls required - ever.
I wish that were universally true. After ~10 years of using Debian
and its derivatives I finally had an upgrade go wrong--Ubuntu 6.06 ->
6.10 (I used apt-get instead of update-manager, which apparently
handles this one better, but I tend to prefer non-gui solutions).
Fortunately I learned long ago to keep /home and /usr/local on
separate partitions so recovery was somewhat painless. Besides, an
occasional reinstall reduces cruft.
Bob, N7XY
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