>>>>> "PM" == Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PM> how well does Debian upgrade? For example from 1.2 to 1.3, etc? PM> I'm wondering because RedHat totally destroyed my system when PM> doing any upgrades (3.0.3 to 4.0, 4.0 to 4.1, 4.1 to 4.2 all PM> screwed everything up)... Debian upgrades are rather smooth. Basically, you just have to tell "dselect" to upgrade the installed package. In some case there are some few packages that you have to upgrade by hand, but that's easy. In particular, Debian respects your changes to the configuration files. If you changed some config file in your system and you install/upgrade some package that includes this file, the system will ask you what to do about it. You can choose to replace it or not. Whatever you choice is, the two versions of the file stay there and you can compare them and make a merge, if you want. It doesn't mess up the /usr/local dir. -- Emilio C. Lopes <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
