Move, or reinstall new?

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/6/2004 8:58 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
>>In a 1.3K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>On 05/05/04 15:53, Tim Wunder wrote:
>>>
>>>>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  :)
>>
>>Boy, that says a whole lot about the utility of using RPM as a
>>system package manager. Not.
> 
> 
> Actually that is quite high praise of using RPM.  I don't trust
> installers.  I trust RPMs.
> 

But isn't an upgrade install, at least for Fedora or RedHat, essentially 
an update via RPM?
That's what I've always thought, anyway.
It would seem to me that an upgrade install was nothing more than a 
prettied up 'rpm -Uvh' on all the packages.

But just 'cuz that's what I think doesn't make it right...

Tim