[ydl-gen] Upgrade rant, was: Re: over-the-wire upgrading of 4.01 to 4.1

[Norberto Quintanar]

You don't think the CEO of terrasoft knows how, or chooses to waste
his time other ways?  Just a thought.

--- "John C. Welch" <jwelch at bynkii.com> wrote:

> On 3/17/06 15:14, "Kai Staats" <kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > ... I guess that was my point, that I do not know how to back up
> my home dir
> > in OSX _and_ all the app preferences and actually have it work.
> It takes
> > hours and a lot of tinkering, but in Linux I simply archive one
> directory and
> > it just works. This breaks down only when the individual apps,
> such as KDE,
> > have changed between their own versions such that prefs no longer
> match. We
> > (as the OS developer), have no control over this and the KDE guys
> seem to do
> > this for the fun of it, just to make things interesting :)
> 
> For homedirs
> 
> Dump it to a disk image/CD, then copy it back, overwrite
> everything.
> 
> The biggest problems happen if your new UID is different from your
> old UID.
> But chown -R fixes that.
> 
> For /Library, the best way is a clean install that preserves user
> and
> network settings. There's *maybe* a handful of things that won't
> get put
> correctly for you, and they'll be sitting in the same relative
> place in the
> /Previous Systems/ directory.
> 
> For /System, leave it the heck alone. If you had kext's in there,
> just
> reinstall from source media.


--Norberto Quintanar 

"You belong to something bigger. From birth. And your life is spent rediscovering the underlying principles, through various players -- coaches, mentors, teachers, spouses, kids. It's in your genes. Your responsibility. Destiny. Is all on you.  Lead, follow, or get out of the way."  
--Norberto Quintanar

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