-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-04-24 at 02:19 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Each one has his own opinion. You just have to browse the archives and find hundreds (literally) of them.
I always upgrade.
And mine is I never upgrade. Just make sure you save the data you need and then do a fresh install. I've never been bitten by a missing package, etc.. Carlos has had good luck with the upgrade, I haven't. If your data is backed up, it is really a "who cares" issue. If the upgrade bombs, the just wipe it out and do a fresh install. All your data is perfectly backed up and safe -- right?
Of course I always do a full backup before any kind of upgrade/install ;-) If the upgrade bombs, I can restore and retry, knowing where it failed; install fresh, having access to all my old settings; and if the new one also bombs, restore the old and keep using it. Some people have to main partitions, one for the old, one for the new. The next cycle, the new becomes the new-old, and the old is installed fresh to become the new-new. This is what I would do on a server, if I can't install a new complete server. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIEH4htTMYHG2NR9URAhlXAJ9GHSc9wsQuRqfPnZ7TRVWxoCrSLQCfWXtp HqmovQ6IjgGt78AiSAjxwac= =ANuw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org