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
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