-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd like to know your opinion about upgrade vs. new installation. I know, that a new installation is the sure way, but what if the place or the architecture of an application's in-home config file changes. It could be resolved by the updater, but what if I created a new installation? Or this situation is absolutely unreal? What can go wrong while an upgrade? My other problem is about /etc. Should I copy the old /etc to the new installation, or should I reconfigure everything, or should I overlook every files of /etc and decide what to do one by one? The /etc question is not straightforward for me in case of a normal update neither. I used Gentoo at the past. In Gentoo the config files have special handling, when your updating procedure try to update a config file, then the new version is copied next to the old version like {&CONFIG_FILE}_001, and you can diff the two versions and do what you want. How SUSE handles these situations? Finally a quite newbie question. Under SUSE how I can "export and import" the packages I have between an old and a new installation? TIA. Tamas Sarga -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFID0KKsuVyj8v2Zy4RAoRWAJsHAcH06ay8LPBsryHlew0PEdbNUQCffhNL o1jbgJJQwmD+bBBOf08kFOE= =HE4P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org