Has anyone successfully updated FC3 with FC4?

[Todd Cary]

Bruce -

How about the password and group files?

Todd

BRUCE STANLEY wrote:

>--- Andy PietPietersilings at vlaavlaamsenkern> wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 28 June 2005 00:31, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>>Thank you for the response.  I guess this is to be
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>>expected since Fedora
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>>>is a test environment, but after getting a box all
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>>set up and purring,
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>>>it is not my idea of a fun activity to have to
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>>reconfigure a box from
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>>>scratch again.
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>>If you can live with some missing configuration
>>screens, then just copy your 
>>home directory to a backup, install FC4 FCom scratch
>>and then copy your home 
>>back.
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>>You will have some fun if you want to get your
>>system multimedia ready.  I am 
>>partparticullaryd of amaramaroKd to get that
>>compiled I needed a complete 
>>day.  First of all GCC4GCC blacklisted by kde kdeI
>>needed to get my hand on a 
>>GCC3GCChich is easier said then done (try
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>>then you'll have some 
>>heavy fun downloading and compiling dependency after
>>dependency after 
>>dependency.  But in the end it's wortworthwilehave a
>>station that can handle 
>>any multimedia file you throw at it (except for
>>encoded).
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>>If you do go that way, and have more then one
>>station available, I suggest you 
>>checkout distdistcct enables you to do make -j 10
>>and have the other stations 
>>in your network do part of the compile work.  So
>>that your system is less 
>>loaded and the compile faster done.
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>>With kind regards
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>>Andy
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>Yes, you can save you home dir direwhere and then
>copy it back, but DO NOT copy back the ~/.kde
>kdeirectory.  Let KDE KDEate it new.  Don't know
>how gnome would react.  
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