[PLUG] More RH8 Trouble

[Derek Loree]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 06:17, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2003, Robbert van Andel wrote:
> 
> > I am having issues after upgrading to RedHat 8.0.  In hind sight, I
> > should have done a clean install but I was lazy and didn't want to have
> > to reinstall all my software.
> 
>   To satisfy my curiosity, please tell me why any linux OS upgrade
> (regardless of distribution) should break installed -- end user -- software?
> 
>   In my naivety I believe that if I install all my software in /usr/local or
> /opt then config files should be left untouched by the OS upgrade and only
> incompatible library versions would cause problems if the old versions are
> removed.
> 
>   I, too, had major problems with config files being overwritten without my
> knowledge or permission when I upgraded from RH 6.2 to 7.3. Am I wrong in
> thinking that this shouldn't happen? What am I missing here?

Debian. It isn't perfect, but at least it asks if you want to hose your
config files.

Couldn't help it :)

Derek Loree