[SLL] dist-upgrade (was: Re: 32 bit)

[Glenn Stone]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 05:11:49PM -0400, Pann McCuaig wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 13:52, Glenn Stone wrote:
>It will work, after a fashion, if the recent past is any indication, but
>Ubuntu ain't Debian. I can't tell you how disappointing is to have to go
>back to "the old way" when apt-dist upgrade just worked starting with
>slink. Sigh. Progress.
>
>OTOH, hard drive space is cheap and there are lots of tools for doing
>the "sucking" mentioned above.

Good old-fashioned rsync worked just fine a couple weeks ago; I borked the
heck out of my old Sarge setup trying to clean it up to get ready for Etch,
so I just dropped a new WD4000JB in my only-slightly-ancient Pogo box,
setting the old disk to Slave into the bargain, laid down a pristine Etch,
and did all my useradds without the -m flag, and then just did "rsync -av
/home2 /home/." and took a break.  

When it got done, I logged in as me, and things were pretty much back to
normal.... 

Besides.  /home on the Dapper box is a remanufactured Death Star.  I think
I'd really rather retire that drive before I find out just how good
Hitachi's Singapore reman lab really is... *knock wood*

-- Glenn