-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 09/28/2014 at 11:29 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:50:45 +1300 Chris Bannister > <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >>> Yes. I'm a huge believer in wiping and reinstalling major >>> versions. It's like spring cleaning, and I eliminate ghosts of >>> operating systems past. >> >> And then there's the rest of us who run Debian precisely because >> you don't have to reinstall. It's great because you only ever >> need to install once. > > Hi Chris, > > I assume that implicit in your reply is that such a major version > upgrade works well, and that over the years you don't get all > sorts of accumulated software dust bunnies doing funny things to > you. > > How many others here have experiences like Chris'? My opinions are > based on Windows, Mandrake and Mandriva. By the time I got to > Ubuntu in 2007 (and Debian in 2013), I was solidly in the habit of > reinstalls and never tried a major version upgrade on Ubuntu or > Debian. I only reinstall when I build a new system, pretty much - and when I do, I transfer across most if not all of my home-directory config files. (Contrary to what's been suggested here recently, I haven't seen that break anything yet.) I did see major breakage resulting from upgrades at one point in the past, but that was because I was habitually dist-upgrading against sid, which is a crazy idea on a remotely "production" system to begin with. I rebuilt on a new install as a result, took advantage of the occasion to transition to amd64, and haven't had problems since. I don't recall when that rebuild took place, but a directory I think was created early post-rebuild has a timestamp of April 2011, and a few other directories which may or may not predate the rebuild have timestamps dating back as far as January 2008. That's on Debian, of course. On Windows, the last time I installed an update that wasn't a simple "Windows Update" or a full "Service Pack" was going from Win95 to Win98, and I think we did that via a full reinstall; nowadays I do full reinstalls for Windows major-version upgrades, though part of that is because I only run Windows at work and we need to organize things so that everyone has a consistent deployment configuration anyway. - -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUKDDqAAoJEASpNY00KDJrRWQP/jZH2ePsFOnyiSXq94CJ5L/G nhWggj7chaeQcMcg7aiwkFL97lLqNepCCypNpNhSc+s0PA0onnZ7+V8iCtNRMuNS COeC6F03lIEHU5q7Cm0g5hktT9nse8CQhNy8keDb0kyp6COssq0FNgE9n7/HMlrL gNstEOTcpZcb6fnDCT0QIRWYskvswCGY0KFzWgB5027lbPmjZiLCwMOpVUVoSd5T nlv0gvmqB6aXa4heCB5vD/Iz5FqZ5sfk3c7jqBsKKEOseytbRT/EIXFJ+eARLTrb ygPQqD2bvKL2BgyoyZqLFM/q5cUJP+6jMkAlLsEH6tv1KLtmr0nlEyIGR+aDSQ/k IlRmxI14WnxuhT3Nnfwcs0CKxWN3o2q4RDxoj/7dnTaAXOjY9PknIyTOfX+2TzdE x5JAc3JBFGFmPmYMQXuBfsXcL3Cyv4bB6z/m5Gu9pQlXpRKAolYogycHX+O04ERY UMHh011L8yvyP3e/6RALatn/UfJpmAaiYJscav1dLzexx0amG2OST3J6IThP+AlJ 2pRjE3DDh5PaUgxz2UTV9Rev84H8pHBwxoc8mc9yhDEnRkGvfkTXngF0dNRh39cy EZemUFH1samkIwZpVEmpY/GQ7cil/AQ1xsFlAafmET6l52JMuxfYUsKsQ+RAl2fp FvTM0xUCUB18hFZa9Cki =b2LG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/542830ea.7000...@fastmail.fm
