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On Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:37:21 -0500, |
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Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> On 3/8/21 4:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > How do you feel it compares to just installing from scratch |
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> > while preserving whatever config and user data you care about? |
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> > I've done that quite a few times and it usually takes about 2-3 |
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> > hours for the initial install and then overnight to build a |
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> > desktop environment (if one is needed). |
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> I feel like installing from scratch misses a lot of things. Even |
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> wholesale overwriting the new /etc with the old /etc is |
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> questionable. You'd have to make sure that all the same software |
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> was installed. |
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> Aside: I've spent too much time around other SAs that would |
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> ""recover a down server by doing fresh installs in hours and then |
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> spending weeks to get everything back to the way that it needed |
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> to be verses spending ~18 hours to restore from tape and have |
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> things work the way they were 24 hours prior. I also never cared |
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> for in place upgrades (installing over top of itself) in the |
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> Windows world. |
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> I feel *MUCH* /more/ comfortable with what I did than other |
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> solutions. I trust that this is the same install with patches |
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> applied. I couldn't and wouldn't say the same for an |
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> installation over the top or fresh installation. |
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> Don't get me wrong. I believe there are places for fresh |
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> installations. They usually happen coordinate with new machines |
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> and / or new drives for me. |
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> After all, I effectively have the same thing that I would have if |
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> I had done updates over the last year like they should have been |
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> done. |
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hmmm, I had to do a sort of fresh install, I did it on my running |
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system and I did it because portage and other stuff was messed up in |
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some way I could not fix, so I did the install, copied parts of my |
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/etc, emerged part of my world file -- that needed cleaning up too -- |
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and kept doing this till I was done and then copied from my chroot to |
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my main system. I don't necessarily recomend this, but it did get |
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things cleaned up and working again. At least I didn't have to change |
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profiles and gcc versions several times. I guess different situations |
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require different methods. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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