[PLUG] Upgrade doesn't touch /home, eh?

[Anthony Schlemmer]

Do you have a backup of your home directories so you have a version of 
your .emacs file you could restore? I take a paranoid approach and 
always backup /home before doing an upgrade just in case something goes 
wrong. That way I haven't put myself into a totally helpless situation 
since I'll be able to restore /home from a backup.

I've actually never needed the backup as I've not had an upgrade fail on 
me yet (knocking on my wooden desk very hard as I write this). :-)

Tony

On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:16 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I've not used emacs since I upgraded from RH 6.2 to 7.3 at the
> beginning of September. It was an unpleasant surprise this morning to
> discover that Red Hat replace my entire ~/.emacs with it's shitty --
> and inappropriate -- new version. I'm royally pissed at this! I
> cannot recall an upgrade in the past 5 years where Red Hat replaced
> an existing config file -- especially in a user's home/ directory --
> without saving the old one or just adding the new one as *.rpmnew.
>
>   I've lost all the custom colors and control key movements that I
> had carefully added over time. The "new, improved" version
> 21.<whatever> doesn't tell me what column the cursor is on and I no
> longer can match a parenthesis, brace, bracket or angle-bracket by
> typing the '%' key or by pressing alt-ctrl-n and ...-p.
>
>   This replacement without saving is a major flaw and I'll find
> someone at Red Hat who should learn of this.
>
> Not a happy camper,
>
> Rich
>
>
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