Upgrade vs Install: request for recommendations (trick questions, sort of)
Geoffrey Leach
geoff at hughes.net
Fri Jun 29 22:09:59 UTC 2012
On 06/29/2012 01:41:42 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm going through the recent release cycles of both Fedora and CentOS
> in
> upgrading machines.
>
> I've had to do a fresh install on a machine where the available /boot
> partition size of 200MB was not adequate. Consequently, I created a
> /boot
> partition of 1GB and did a fresh install. (This was for moving from
> F15->F16; I then successfully upgraded to F17.)
>
> The issue for me was matching the installation to what I had
> previously.
> My approach was to store a list of rpms (rpm -qa > F15RpmList.txt)
> and
> then sdiff -s to a list of F16 Rpms.
>
> Is there a more efficient procedure than this?
I have a couple of Perl scripts to automate the listing and re-loading
of rpms. they essentially automate what you're doing.
If its not too late, here's a suggestion. Put / and boot in their own
partitions, then put /home, /usr/local, and so on in their own
partitions. Then, when you're faced with a new release, you can leave
these partitions untouched, and merely install the new release. There
are any number of administrative details with the new release, but at
least their are details over which you have control, as opposed to
those resulting from an upgrade that didn't quite work :-).
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