[K12OSN] yum update and etc/k12ltsp-release

[Huck]

Backuppc is a great method of 'backing up' all of those critical 
files...since you can just click in the little box and click 'restore' 
and voila there you are back in business ;)

It's saved my eager editing butt many a times!

--Huck

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 13:33 -0400, John Baillie wrote:
> 
>> We have been installing fresh for years. Somewhere along the line I got the impression that starting with ver 5 
>> we could run yum update and not have to reinstall similar to debian apt-get dist upgrade.
> 
> If you use the Upgrade function in K12LTSP, it will not require a total
> "blank the hard drive and reinstall".
> 
> BUT - do a backup of all critical files first! While the upgrade process
> is an rpm guided action, there are still a few config files that don't
> get handled properly during an upgrade. In 99.5% of cases, either the
> new version will create a config.rpmnew or move the original to
> config.rpmsave . It's been a long time since I've seen it but some
> earlier upgrades would simply overwrite the original config file.
> 
> Where things get a bit messy is when the layout of the config file
> changes. You will need to do a manual reconfig in that situation.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _______________________________________________
> K12OSN mailing list
> K12OSN at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>