All,
I have just noticed that FC6 is available and the question is how does the upgrade process work? More specifically, is there anything that sets out which directories are not affected by the upgrade process. I have a number of applications installed in /opt and other places and wondered if these would be affected. I admit that I probably haven't handled that process as well as I could have in all cases, but that is due to my own lack of understanding sometimes. I assume that /home will be unaffected, but it is not clear if the files located in some of these other locations that are not part of the Fedora distribution will be disturbed.
Any insight would be helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Herb
Hi Herb, You should of course take a backup of all your data just in case the upgrade goes sour and you have a non-bootable system. The partimage program on a recovery CD works nicely to image a bootable image. I always take a back up /etc to another machine as it contains most of the config files. While you CANNOT get away with just restoring it, the files in the directory contain a lot of values you may end up needing, like DNS server address, the contents of your smbpasswd file if you run samba, your web server config file, etc. In a previous go around of this question, someone mentioned saving the output of "rpm -qa > /tmp/some_file.txt" to save a list of all the packages that were loaded on the system. Someone else posted a slightly more elegant version: rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' > /tmp/rpm-pkgs
If everything works perfectly, you might not need these.
Bob Styma