On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:20:21PM -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
On Sat, 2005-16-07 at 13:32 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Guy Fraser wrote:
Also consider the possibility that it might make more sense to keep /home on a separate partition, and leave this alone even if installing.
That can and does cause problems as well.
Using old configuration files can and does cause lots of problems when the software that uses them is updated, that includes to user level config files in the home directories.
Unless the update process has a way of updating all the configuration files under /home it is better to tar it up and store it somewhere. You can restore it in an alternate location and move the files that don't exist after the upgrade then use diff to determine what needs to changed in with the files that are left.
That is basically what I do when I upgrade a server.
You must have lots of spare time on your hands.
No, not really. Using diff and other command line 'filters', it doesn't take too long to find necessary changes.
I did this upgrade fro FC# to FC4. All of my problems were resolved by doing a yum update. But maybe other people have different problems.