Move, or reinstall new?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
>
> 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.

Kinda sorta, but there's some other stuff that goes on too, like policy or
architecture changes.

> 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...

No, i think you're correct.  But i'd prefer to decide & control which RPMs
get upgraded, and which do not.  The Redhat installer doesn't provide that
granularity of control.

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