On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:52 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 08:37, Pinco wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a beginner and I would like to learn how to do what you did! > > > > So, can you please explain me how to update from FC1 to FC2 mantaining all my configuration (gnome, applications etc) and users? How did you do? > > > > Thanks a lot, > > Nino > > > Well Nino, > > Quite simple. > > When you first setup your linux box. be sure to create a /home > partition. > The rest is how tidy you are when you work. > > Try not to do any work outside of your home folder. eg </home/nino> > If you make or edit any config files like ld.so.conf or your fstab you > can create a hidden folder in your home dir and leave copies of those > file there for reference. <mkdir .dirname> > Also try and keep an updated list of the programs you have manually > installed. your prefered stuff. > Keep the rpms for these apps in a hidden folder in your home dir so that > you can quickly get back up to speed. > > You are now quite prepared [Hopefully], Hold thumbs next time your box > mysteriously dies. > If you have really really broken it, and need to reload. > Do a clean install and when you partition DO NOT FORMAT </home> > partition and DO NOT CHANGE ITS NAME. As far as locally installed software - if it is compiled from source, keep the src tarball in /usr/local/src Some like to keep /usr/local as a separate partition - I prefer not to, because sometimes the software that I have in there is dynamically linked to a library in /usr/lib that changes when a new version of the OS is installed. So for me - /usr/local/src is all I need to keep between installations. with respect to custom rpm's - make a cronjob that weekly logs what rpm's you have on your system - rpm -qa > /home/username/rpms-installed.txt After doing a clean install - you can then compare what is installed on your system with what use to be installed on your system - and use yum to install stuff that you use to have but no longer do. As far as rpm's you yourself built - I do that in my home directory anyway (and archive both spec files and src files to a cvs server on my lan) as rpm's should never be built as the root user. Create an rpm tree in your home directory and a .rpmmacros file to tell rpm where that tree is (if you are into building custom rpm's) And don't forget to copy your openssl keys to somewhere safe - if you have to reinstall your / - you'll want to use the same keys so that you won't get annoying "ack! There's a man in the middle!!!!" warnings from ssh/scp
