Recommended upgrade method

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Dan Burcaw wrote:

> 
> Short answer: reinstall from scratch if you can. It will be much better.
> Long answer: you may be able to apt-get install once the YDL 3 RPMS/SRPMS 
> are up on the mirror sites in a few weeks.
> 

Dan, 

Is the apt-get upgrade method going to be tested at some point in the near
future?  If you remember we went though a similar thing with the 1.2 ->
2.0 release which IMHO, sucked big time. I was hoping that this issue 
would be addressed this time 'round.  Some of us run systems that don't 
fit into the 'erase-and-start-over' methodlogy all too well.  What are the 
major changes in 3.0 that would make a upgrade non-feasible? (eg. other 
than a new version of rpm, a whole different toolchain, etc...  I don't 
have X, Gnome or KDE installed, so a lot of the crosslinked dependancy 
issues should be nullified)

Failing that, will the 3.0 installer at least allow you to install without
having to wipe and reformat all of your intended target partitions as the
2.x installer did so we can at least not have to kill /var and /home? I'm
thinking that anaconda *shouldn't* force this restriction, but I'd like
some form of authoritative answer :)

Also, how much longer will security errata for the 2.x series be released?  
While I'd like to update sooner rather than later, prudence and my 
workload say it'll be a month or two before I can get to it.

Thanks!

-n
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