Moving from Centos to Fedora 9

[David Kramer]

Jerry Feldman wrote, On 09/13/2008 02:41 PM:
> I've decided that I want a more cutting edge distro. While I run RHEL at
> work and Centos 5.2 at home, there are some features in Fedora 9 (as
> well as SuSE 11 andUbuntu 8.04 that are not available in Centos through
> the standard repositories (although I can grab them directly).
> 
> While I will probably do a clean install, is it possible to do an
> upgrade install.

<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 (sometimes
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.