Why FC-2?
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Mar 13 01:20:44 UTC 2004
Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Generally when upgrading Linux it is best to do a fresh install of the
> new operating system. This is because of the libraries primarily.
>
> What you usually want to do is keep /home (and possibly /usr/local) on
> their own partitions so that you can reinstall w/o needing to worry
> about that. I don't keep /usr/local on it's own myself - for the library
> problem (new shared libraries rarely work well with binaries that want
> the old ones - that's why there's a crapload of compat packages)
Which libraries exactly?
I just compared the libraries on the computer I upgraded to FC-1 from RH-9
with the one I installed FC-1 on
(both having been brought up2date).
While I didn't make a careful comparison,
I couldn't see any difference in the libraries
(except one or two I'd installed myself).
Are you claiming that there is a problem with libraries if you upgrade?
How do you know, if you never upgrade yourself?
I've always upgraded from RH-7 onwards (possibly earlier),
and I've never had any "library problem" of the sort you describe.
(I had to install on the computer mentioned above
because of a hardware failure.)
For some reason this issue -- installation versus upgrading --
seems to bring out the dogmatists,
most of whom as far as I can see have never actually tried both methods,
but still seem sure which is best.
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Timothy Murphy
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