On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Ralph Clark wrote:
> Philip Stokes wrote:
>
> > I'd go for the upgrade. A couple of minor glitches as I've detailed in
> > other posts to the list, but all in all it went remarkably smoothly, and
> > certainly a lot less hassle than blowing everything away and starting
> > again from scratch.
>
> I've always been wary of upgrades. What if they quietly screw up over some
> subtle little misconfiguration on your system? When you do the full re-install
> you blow away all those little misconfigurations you introduced over the
> lifetine of the previous version. Then you can re-apply your customisations in
> /etc and your home directory from a backup diskette by hand, one by one. Call it
> revision.
Well I backed up my whole system before I upgraded, just in case :)
But in fact most of my configuration subtleties seem to have been
carried over. Where I had altered files and they were replaced, the
original files were kept in place with an .rpmsave extension, as well as
being backed up to /var/adm/backup, and I was mailed notification of the
changes as well, which made it easy to go through the new system
checking that everything was as I want it.
> Can someone who's already done it please mention whether we need to download any
> patches _before_ installing/upgrading?
You shouldn't need to. Anything that's been updated can be fetched from
SuSE's server and replaced using YaST after you've upgraded.
Phil
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