On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 01:55:28PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On 31 Dec 12:30, Chris G wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:08:53PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
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Installing web applications rarely seems so easy and you always end up wondering whether you've put it in the right place.
Nope, I really don't. On the other hand, I've been doing this for probably the best part of 9 years.
Well if you want to pull that sort of seniority thing I've been developing software for 35 years or so. Length of experience doesn't necessarily equate with wisdom! ... and that applies to both of us :-)
Given that yum will actually let you run through an upgrade these days, why are you doing a reinstall? Sounds like a lot of work for not a lot of gain to me - and occasionally - just occasionally - it even warns you of configuration file format changes!
Well it's a bit difficult to move from Slackware to Fedora without doing a clean install. It also appears from the Fedora users list that upgrading from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 isn't always straightforward.
Doing a re-install also has the advantage of discarding the junk that slowly accumulates over upgrades.