Move, or reinstall new?

[Net Llama!]

On 05/05/04 15:53, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 4:10 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
>>
>>>On 5/5/2004 3:29 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>I've historically done fresh installs when upgrading distros, except for
>>>my last upgrade from RHL 8.0 to FC1.
>>
>>FWIW, i've never been a very big fan of fresh installs.  They take up so
>>much time for me to tweak everything the way I like/need it.  And on top
>>of that, upgrading rarely goes 100% smoothly.  There's always stuff that
>>is either broken, or just isn't compatible with the new version.
> 
> 
> I'm reading this as:
> "Don't do a fresh install because upgrades always mess things up."
> 
> Surely that's not what you meant...

well, sorta.  basically, don't upgrade, don't reinstall.  just manually 
upgrade RPMs  :)

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