UPDATE Re: [Cialug] upgrading opensuse 10.1 -> 10.2

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 14:37 -0500, Josh More wrote:
> Then, when it's time to upgrade, I back up /etc, /home, and /root, and
> do a clean install.

> 1) EVERYTHING on the system must be linked to an rpm (or deb, etc etc
> etc)
> 2) EVERY rpm (or deb, etc) installed on the system that did not come
> from a yum (or yast, apt-get, red-carpet, etc) repo, must be in a
> /root/installs/ directory
> 3) EVERY tarball installed on the system must first be packaged, and
> the packaging notes be in a /root/installs/ directory.
>  
> But if you can do that, most problems magically vanish.  

Yeah, those are good tips, I do about the same. You can take it one step
further, and put your /etc into version control. It is so nice to be
able to diff now compared to a few versions ago.
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