Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 10:21 -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> In another message someone suggested reading the current RPM database
> before an reinstallation upgrade and making sure to install those
> packages.  That would eliminate a goodly amount of time from my upgrade
> procedures, and a tremendous amount of pain.  Ideally something would
> detect my configurations for those programs and save them out somewhere,
> but I'm not holding my breath.

I think it might be wise to consider the old Caldera notion of
using /opt to contain all the goodies that you post install and wish to
be left alone. Then you merely fresh install the core apps while
leaving /opt (and /home /root) alone. It's worth a thought. Ric