On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:39:42PM +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 14:33, Nick Rout wrote: > > installer. HOWEVER ?it cannot be used to upgrade an existing install. > > > If the debs are on the CD (I don't see why they wouldn't be, but I haven't > checked) you should be able to copy them to your /var/cache/apt/archives/ > directory before running the update to save the downloads.
An apt-get upgrade (or even apt-get distupgrade) isn't quite the same as a boot-and-reinstall-over-the-top operation; especially where you have modified some aspects of your machines (config files generally) in some manner that the packaging system doesn't recognise. I would tend to upgrade-in-place on a remote server, but on a desktop would probably reinstall-over-the-top ... and if I had a nice backup of $HOME I would even go for wipe-and-reinstall. Rembering the whole time that many other 'desktop' distributions of the last n years have had no mechanism except wipe-and-reinstall. So anything that gets even 90% of the upgrade in place without wiping is a great win, and 'good enough' for the vast majority of people. -jim
