[ale] re-installs versus upgrades [was: Re: X wants nvidia libraries]
Bob Toxen
transam at verysecurelinux.com
Fri Jan 11 15:11:16 EST 2008
The problem with re-installs is that all the tweaking I've done w.r.t.
accounts, programs in /usr/local/{bin,sbin}, and zillions of other
things would have to be redone at a huge time cost.
I'm doing THAT for my main server www.verysecurelinux.com and it is an
ongoing pain.
Bob
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 02:38:38PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Fri 2008-01-11 08:39:10 -0500, David Tomaschik wrote:
>
> > I don't know how often Mandriva releases new versions, but I can't
> > imagine reinstalling a system every few months. I do have separate
> > /home partitions, so those would be preserved, but there's still a
> > lot of system configuration in /etc, installing packages, etc. Good
> > to know about Mandriva.
>
> Urg. No kidding. Reinstallation sucks, especially during the
> reconfiguration steps. What did i change to get that MTA to do what i
> needed it to do again?
>
> debian has me totally spoiled. I've got machines i've been
> continuously upgrading for years, and it's a really smooth process
> that preserves all the work i put into configuring the systems in the
> first place. Three cheers for rigorous policy mandating that Upgrades
> Must Work, and well-documented upgrade procedures[0]!
>
> --dkg
>
> [0] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
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