On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 08:54 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > CB wrote: > > What approaches do people here use for upgrading Fedora installations? > > I'm assuming that one wants to upgrade, even if only for curiosity. > > You don't mention the procedure that I use. I have two RAID devices > that I use for root filesystems (including /home). At any given time, > one of them is the production system, and the other one is usually the > previous version of Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core. When the time comes to > "upgrade", I do a fresh install on the "non-production" device, which > becomes the new production system. Then I selectively copy files and > directories from the previous system to the new one. Since the old > system stays around for a long time, there's next to no chance that I'll > forget to migrate anything. > > This is more labor intensive, but it has the advantage that it avoids > the build up of "cruft" that can occur when one constantly upgrades. > That's quite a neat idea. It wouldn't really work for my situation though as I just have too many disparate applications installed, and can't quite bear the thought of having to install them all again over a fresh Fedora install. 'Cruft' or major distribution changes will no doubt make it necessary eventually, but I don't want to do it for every upgrade.
