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

[Derick Centeno]

Shhh...Norberto.  You think the fellow can't read the TSS byline for 
himself?


On Mar 17, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Norberto Quintanar wrote:

> 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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