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...
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-adv...