How to ease re-install "upgrades"?

[Will Backman]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:43, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Mike Bartman wrote:
> > Speaking of which, what tricks do people have for easing an "upgrade"
> > that's done by installing a fresh copy of a newer system?  Upgrade installs
> > often only work for adjacent, or almost adjacent, versions...
> <snip>
I like to do an "rpm -Va" and look for config file changes.