On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 01:16 -0700, Mike Cloaked wrote: > I guess that most people develop their own way of "upgrading" from one > release to the next but this is an area that is generally not > extensively > documented apart from lots of bits of answers spread out over many > questions > on forums. I prefer clean installs every time but I still need to keep > user > areas and personalised files etc in /opt preserved for use in the new > system. Yeah, that's a fairly common use case for upgrades. As you've mentioned, I suspect people have developed their own best practices over time. I'd be curious for your feedback on the current documented upgrade method: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/ch-upgrading-system.html The install-guide also recommends a partitioning scheme intended to preserve user data by creating a separate '/home' partition [1]. This doesn't quite meet your needs of preserving system configuration data in '/etc'. If you end up repeatedly using the same authentication/user configuration files on many systems, you might consider moving that data to a network service (NIS, ldap/krb) on another system? Thanks, James [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-partitioning-advice.html
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