The race to GCC 3

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

Paul Iadonisi <pri.blu at iadonisi.to> writes:

>   I general distrust all upgrades, anyhow.  At the very least, I duplicate
> my existing install and make sure I can boot from it.  Then I do the upgrade
> on the original install and if something disastrous happens, I just boot
> from the copy I made and see what I can fix, or revert back to the old release
> and plan a clean install, migrating my customizations over to the new release.
> A pain, yes, but I've been burned too often by in the past (though, not so
> much lately, interestingly enough) by upgrades.

On my workstation, I keep /home and /opt on their own partitions. When a 
new
Redhat release comes out, I first back up /opt, /home, /usr/local, /etc, 
and
/var/www to a removable ide hard drive, then I do a fresh install without 
overwriting /opt or /home. After I'm up and running with the new system, I 
restore /usr/local and /var/www completely, and selected things from /etc
such as ssh host keys. I generally review the old httpd.conf and patch the 
new one by hand, in case there's any changes in apache that might break 
the old one.


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