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On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 05:22:30PM -0700, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> I have a production Alpha box running 1.5.2 with 3rd-party packages from
> pkgsrc as well as some locally-installed applications.  I would like to
> upgrade to 1.5.3, but I don't want to lose my /etc, /usr/home, or other
> vital directories.
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> What would be better:
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> 1.) backup everything important, do a full install from CD, then restore
> important stuff by hand  [this sounds terrible]
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> 2.) backup everything important, install over the top from CD, then make
> sure the upgrade didn't wipe anything out  [this sounds okay, assuming
> that the upgrade process will only overwrite files and not reformat/delete
> things not present in the base install, and that it will either leave /etc
> untouched or create a copy of it]
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> 3.) backup everything important, install over the top from CVS using "make
> build"  [this is preferable, with the same assumptions as above]

i did the following (remotely):

 - fetched syssrc sources from cvs
 - fetched .tgz sets from ftp
 - built new kernel
 - installed new bootblock and rebooted
 - unpacked everything except etc.tgz to /
 - unpacked etc.tgz into /tmp, ran etcupdate and rebooted

that's all. everything works like a charm.  (i386 production machine)


regards,

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