WARNING:DO NOT UPGRADE TO CORE 4

[Tony Nelson]

At 1:32 PM +0100 7/16/05, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>Guy Fraser wrote:
>
>>> Also consider the possibility that it might make more sense
>>> to keep /home on a separate partition, and leave this alone even if
>>> installing.
>
>> That can and does cause problems as well.
>>
>> Using old configuration files can and does cause lots of
>> problems when the software that uses them is updated, that
>> includes to user level config files in the home directories.
>>
>> Unless the update process has a way of updating all the configuration
>> files under /home it is better to tar it up and store it
>> somewhere. You can restore it in an alternate location and
>> move the files that don't exist after the upgrade then use diff
>> to determine what needs to changed in with the files that are left.
>>
>> That is basically what I do when I upgrade a server.
>
>You must have lots of spare time on your hands.

Or maybe he does this to save time.  It's only a few extra commands to a
*nix expert (though I'd need time to figure it out):  tar, mkdir, tar, and
diff.  Should be faster than troubleshooting it instead.
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