upgrade or clean installation?

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Sun Apr 23 12:58:46 UTC 2006


Antony Gelberg wrote:
> You must be used to another OS.  :)

Or another package manager :)

>>In short, would it be better to make a
>>clean installation when the time comes?
> 
> Doubt it.  Upgrades between releases should be pain-free by design.

Well, I've had to reconfigure X:

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xort

I also recommend dropping to a TTY to do the dist-upgrade. Don't do it 
from inside X. Besides that, there shouldn't be any problems.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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