-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-04-23 at 16:07 +0200, Tamas Sarga wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to know your opinion about upgrade vs. new installation.
Each one has his own opinion. You just have to browse the archives and find hundreds (literally) of them. I always upgrade.
What can go wrong while an upgrade?
Missing packages, services that do not work properly till you configure them again, because of the changes... nothing unsolvable with some patience.
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?
The old config would be renamed as *.rpmorig, or the new one *.rpmnew. There is a script that lists them, but there has been a change here and I don't know where you will see it. A few versions back it run on every boot. Now I think it runs afer installing something, as part of the suseconfig script. On a few cases the installer handles them nicely and you don't have to do anything.
Finally a quite newbie question. Under SUSE how I can "export and import" the packages I have between an old and a new installation?
Yes, there is such a feature somewhere, but I don't remember right now :-? Maybe it is autoyast, maybe as part of yast backup/restore. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFID02+tTMYHG2NR9URAluTAKCFp+hX09Ba0wJk0nHW5wbMSLhK+ACfRPEi 5kNLKGy2Ip6bD1SP2Q0o7To= =E3YK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org