to, 2007-11-08 kello 07:45:18 -0700, Craig White kirjoitti: ...big snip > But upgrading from Fedora-x to Fedora-8 or whatever... > > there will be a number of whatever.conf.rpmnew files whose newer > configuration options are lost in the upgrade and you might never know > these things by upgrading. > I've upgraded from FC4 to F7 with everything between and have never longed for whatever configuration options I may have missed. No big deal, IMHO. > there will be 'orphaned' packages that are left behind and not > upgraded...how are you going to find them? how are you going to delete > them? > Simple. AFAIK, they will manifest themselves as conflicts whenever an update arrives which has an older version in the system. Pirut has been a dependable remover of old versions - and it doesn't remove all dependencies like 'yum remove' does (or at least used to). > there will upgraded versions of things like gnome or kde whose > settings files/folders in your $HOME directory will cause all sorts of > issues - at least they have been a problem in the past. > In upgrading from FC6 to F7 I had three issues. Two of them were my Epson C46 USB printer and K3b. Both were solved by removing and reinstalling. I forget what the third issue was. > I think that the upgrade provides many more opportunities for > unexplained or inconsistent behavior whereas the 'clean' install > should be much more predictable behavior. > You may have a point there. One of these days I'll try clean install. > Craig BR, Antti
