Hi. On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 08:54:51 +0300 softwatt <softw...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Also, does a clean install offer any advantage over an upgrade? It's > really a pain and I prefer to avoid it, but if there are good reasons > I'll do it. Let's see: A clean install of Jessie may be preferred as you'll get systemd out of the box. Conventional upgrade may result in keeping old init. Conventional upgrade may keep some so-called 'orphaned' packages, i.e. they were supported in Wheezy, but they aren't in the archive in Jessie. Conventional upgrade will try its best to keep your customizations to the configuration files (whenever such customizations produce a meaningful result should be sorted out on case-by-base basis). A clean install will produce maintainer's version of such files in 100% of cases. And, of course, losing power during 'apt-get dist-upgrade' may result in a unbootable system. A fresh installation will be screwed by such event too, but you can always start an installation anew, but its much harder with 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140919101848.f5e7c799a97bf43c3cd3b...@gmail.com
