Re: tlug: "Upgrading": best method?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:

> Howard Abbey <habbey@example.com> wrote,
> 
> > My installation of Red Hat 5.0, while it works, lacks many of the extras
> > in
> > newer distributions (esp. easy Japanese ability).  So I want to install 
> > a new RPM based distribution.  The real question is:
> > 
> > Does 'upgrading' work with newer RPM based Linux distributions (RH 5.1,
> > etc.)  Or is it still better to wipe everything (except /home) and start
> > clean? 
> > Also, in particular, would TurboLinux upgrade from RedHat?
> 
> I doubt the latter.
> 
> > Wiping the drive isn't a tremendously big deal for me, it just that I've 
> > forgotten how half of my programs were set up (mail program, PPPd, Quake 
> > Eraser bots, SCSI raid-0 w/ md, etc.).
> 
> If you install from scratch, make sure you have your old /etc 
> tar'ed on some disk or so - that might save you some
> headaches.

If you have an RPM based distribution, you could do a recursive find on /
and pipe it through 'rpm -qf' .. then you'd know what files aren't part of
packages, and therefore need to be backed up...

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