scsijon wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] 9.1 to 9.2 upgrade tested? (going OT)' on Wed, Oct 13 at 06:39: [...]
By rights we, the users and technical installers / upgraders should be able to upgrade between minor releases, only clean install at major ones. I know of quite a few people (managerial level) that balk at considering linux because of this (data loss, time of upgrade per machine, etc.) and no talking will change their minds.
Do these managers support Windows, or are they partial to other *nixes? I have personally done almost every possible combination of updates from one windows version to another, and have, without fail, regretted each and every one of those upgrades when I had to do a clean install later anyway. Anyway, "insert plug for gentoo-style updating here". ;) It's a differnet distro, but it'd sure be nice if SuSE could just 1) set up paths conformant to the LSB and 2) stick with those friggin' paths for a while. Perhaps things wouldn't break so darned often if they'd come up with a good file system structure + a good format for the files in /etc, and then stick with it for more than a release or two. I mean, damn, I change cars about once a year, but most of them still fit in the same garage. :) --Danny