[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Dirk Wetter]

Am 13.06.07 17:42, Ben Creitz schrieb:

> I usually hear Linux sysadmins being suspicious of automated upgrade
> from one 'release' to the next, favoring clean installs which give
> them complete control and force them to carefully review the system in
> question, which they should do once in a while anyway.  It seems like
> a lot of work goes in to making release upgrades work, but if you read
> for example the msgs on a LUG mailing list, everytime a new release of
> distro X comes out, a bunch of people try to upgrade to that release
> using the automated mechanism, the mechanism screws something up, and
> they end up doing a fresh install.

That depends. deb-based distros are in my experience easier to upgrade than
RPM-based. I think it's not because of the different package management but
due to the fact that for Debian-based distros it's common to do the
"vi /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade"-tango. If
this doesn't work it's a *bug*. For e.g. OpenSuse/Fedora it's considered to
be a *feature* which works or not, also because those distributions are
not designed to satisfy this point. For this you have the $$$-versions of
those vendors...


Cheers,
	Dirk




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