> I'm less convinced. Debian is meant for being upgraded easily, so > dooing a "clean reinstall" is not really that a benefit. But, still,
Right, once, you have a clean debian install sure you just upgrade. Yet, "preserve /home" (or rather del sys-files) provides a nice way to get to the point of a clean debian install, from another distro, an unsupported release, or otherwise unclean or corrpted system in a single filesystem setup (those getting more common with btrfs?). > > And this even seems to suggest there might already exist debian-installer > patches: > > https://wiki.edubuntu.org/komputes/HowToDebianInstallerPreserveHome > > I don't really see where this page suggests this. It gives a step by > step method, using the "manual partitioning" method....which I think > is logical for such purpose. Yes, as the spec stated the UI difference is rather subtle. The debian-installer message one can see on that page is: "The file system on /dev/sda1 assigned to / has not been marked for formatting. Directories containing system files (/boot, /etc, /usr, /var, ...) that already exist under any defined mountpoint will be deleted during the install." However, when I tried this with the squeeze debian-installer, it told me the targed is "unclean" and warned about possible conflicts, which will of course occur if the old system files are not deleted. (Clearly a different behavior.) > What exactly would you like to see changed? I would like to see the same "system files will be deleted" behavior in debian. >From the screen shots it seems some patches should already exist for the debian-installer to support this, but my tests showed they are not applied in debian. I have looked for a repo where the patches may be available, but could not locate them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/801184638.531765.1336817218887.javamail.ngm...@webmail19.arcor-online.net
