Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

["Quentin Jackson" <Quentin.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:13 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> Richard Allen escribió:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a question that seems to get mixed answers.
> >
> > On news.opensuse.org it has been stated by people that we can update from 
> > the beta to the release candidate to then the final release without having 
> > to download and do a fresh install.
>
>
> yes using zypper dup
>
> > However on the Opensuse Forum, the moderators speak against it saying that 
> > we should do a clean install because config files from the beta could be 
> > left behind.
>
> config files may be different, or maybe not ;) if you have modified the
> configuration files they shouldn't be replaced.

So clarifying, I guess this means that unless you specifically edited
text files, or maybe used YaST to edit any settings (highly likely) then
the files that were changed probably won't be replaced.  A scenario I
wasn't entirely aware of.  The only way you know for sure is to do a
complete fresh rebuild.  If you keep your home directory alive though it
will remember your wireless network settings, wallpaper etc, though I
don't know what implications that has.

Q

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