On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:32:54PM +1000, CB wrote:
>
> What approaches do people here use for upgrading Fedora installations?
....
> Can anyone suggest how to choose between these? Fedora has a pretty high
> rate of version churn and for anyone like me who wants to keep up it's
> going to be important to establish a reliable and non-labour-intensive
> procedure.
When I can I like to upgrade. With some care things commonly work fine.
One up2date option of great value is:
up2date --show-orphans
The only orphans you want are 'special' packages that
you know, love and understand.
Another trick is to look at all the config files that
rpm knows about. Especially the *.rpmnew and *.rpmsave files.
After the slocate data base has been refreshed by cron.
Look for and inspect any config files that need attention.
locate rpm | grep rpmnew$
locate rpm | grep rpmsave$
The extreme user will be interested in this list:
(rpm -qa )| while read it; do rpm -q --configfiles $it; done | less
My personal preference is to ping-pong between machines. I do a clean
load on my 'spare' machine and explore the new release. Then on that
'clean' box I fill it out with local customization (named, mail, plugins
etc).
I then upgrade my primary machine. The 'clean' box (reference) makes
it easy to debug stuff.
If do not like the results of the upgrade I still have the option of
a reload.
The clean box gives me positive values for partition sizes. I might
repartition it a couple times. /home is a separate disk.
I have found that the clean reference machine has made upgrades easy.
Without the reference machine I would recommend clean loads for those
that ask.
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T o m M i t c h e l l
Me, I would "Rather" Not.
