Moving from Centos to Fedora 9

[Jerry Feldman]

On 09/13/2008 06:37 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> <Rocket J. Squirrel>That trick NEVER works!</Rocket J. Squirrel>
>
> The worst part about trying a stunt like that is that even if it
> "works", you won't know if it worked cleanly til you've done stuff that=

> exercises all the libraries and executables you normally rely on.
>
> My policy has *always* been to back up to external hard drive (sometime=
s
> only directories with config/data and not binaries), reformat, and
> install from scratch.  I tried version upgrades two or three times, and=

> it caused me heartache each time.
>
> Now the biggest issue I have is config file formats changing, for the
> most part.
>  =20
<Bullwinkle>I've tested upgraded on SuSE as well as Ubuntu, and upgrades =

between adjacent releases usually go ok</Bullwinkle>

The downside of upgrade installs is that some software that may have=20
been previously installed may still hang around and could no longer work =

because of library incompatibilities. While I keep my /usr/local, in the =

past I always would rebuild claws-mail and its dependencies.

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