Maintaining all packages when reinstalling the ubuntu OS?

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 14:44 +0800, Goh Lip wrote: 
> On 07/08/2011 02:18 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > I'd be very careful with that last bit. With a major jump from 8.04 to
> > 10.4 there is bound to be some conf files that should not be restored.
> > The trick would be which ones? It might be better to leave the new conf
> > files in place and use the old ones as a reference to edit the new ones
> > by. Ric
> 
> 
> In this case the OP is reinstalling the same version, 10.04 and 10.04. 
> There should be no problem. I think you're confusing this with another 
> thread.

Ah, I thought this was the guy that upgraded and was now installing
clean to fix the last blow up. :) Ric


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