On 05/11/2015 12:45 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
On 2015-05-11 06:08, Rolf Turner wrote:
I have finally reached a stage where I may have to bite the bullet,
grasp the nettle, screw my courage to the sticking place .... and
upgrade my Fedora version.
I am currently running Fedora 17. Which is of course antediluvian.
Hi Rolf, and all. Your email really begs a general question:
WHY upgrade, in a situation like yours? Does it really make sense?
Why not backup everything,
then completely ERASE the old installation, installing over it
the current version from SCRATCH, then configure it to work as you need?
Seriously. Wouldn't it be a much more reliable path, and consume much
less
time in the end?
I'm interested in everybody's thoughts on this, not just Rolf's.
Thanks,
Marco
http://mfioretti.com
Well, for one thing, installing from scratch requires possibly a large
number of config files, which would require remembering which ones
they are, search for them in the backup and overwrite the newly installed
config files, or worse: merge them into the new config files, or go through
a painful edit to see what setting from the old make sense in the new,
since not all settings in the old would make sense in the new.
Just my $.02's worth.
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