Clean Installs are Remarkable

[Reindl Harald]

On 22.12.2011 20:29, mike cloaked wrote:
> Of course others may largely have had no problems with ugrades and
> maybe I was just the one unlucky one!  Anyway with all the QA testing
> on recent versions as well as the QA testing of the upgrade path
> perhaps my experience of it is simply outdated.

i made some hundret dist-upgrades since 2006 with yum
yes they are sometimes not "start and forget" but it takes
me 1-3 days after a fresh-install (many services, customized
configs) and so i prepare dist-upgrades on ONE virtual machine

there are important packages rebuilt from source with removed
restart of services due update, newer versions than fedora for
many reasons and after the preparing each dist-upgrade on the
other servers takes 5-7 minutes while all services are running
and 20-30 seconds for the reboot

i see no reason to go the windows "install from scratch" way
on a linux system since you can check all things before reboot
and yes you are responsible to do this as admin

maybe on simple-minded machines with no customizations a fresh
install is the faster way, but soch browse-only and "eat what i
get" setups do not interest me in any way


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