On 03/20/2013 10:11 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Wednesday, 2013-03-20 at 17:33 +0800, George Olson wrote:
On 03/20/2013 09:58 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
That is good to know. What in particular are those directories that have configuration files that need to be separate for the different versions?
Almost everything!
You can only keep (for backwards move) those files that did not change. If the new version has a new setting that the old version does not understand, you have a problem. It can be trivial and just ignored, it can produce "syntax error in config", who knows.
Ok, this brings up another question. Suppose instead of making separate partitions for all the configuration files, you just upgrade KDE in an earlier version to the same KDE version as it will be when installing a new 12.3 on a new partition, but keeping the same home partition. Then that would give a chance to tweak all the variables that might need to be changed before actually performing the upgrade, and might actually allow for a more seamless transition, which would also allow for the old operating system to continue to be used if one didn't have several hours at once to dedicate to the process of upgrading. Are there any flaws in following a strategy like that? -- George Olson Box #1: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.2 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org