Coders Edge
 FC13
   HTTPD on FC13
   
  
Upgrade barf on
   Notebook HP.

Did I mention previous
in some other column here
at urge central about
my dream of my notebook
computer backpack falling
out the back of my station
wagon (I don't really have a
station wagon) and smashing
on the interstate in Vermont
on my way to somewhere else?

I think that I did somewhere. 
In any case that is essentially
what is happening in the sense
that, after all the many years
of having the thing, I am finally
just doing a clean install with
an FC Linux instead of doing
an upgrade.
This was not a choice but . . .
I didn't have anything on that
machine that I didn't also
have elsewhere so . . . I was
fine with the idea that if
things didn't work out then
I would just do a fresh install.

Many recommend a separate home
directory, on a drive different
from where the operating system
is installed.  That way any change
in operating system can be accomplished
with a fresh install everytime if
need be.

Often times a development machine
has a very special set of tools
that one needs to use.  The reason
for doing an upgrade is so that all
of that installation will remain.
This allows for a configuration
as close to what was before as 
possible.  Naturally every time one
updates a package then there are 
changes so . . . configurations
must migrate and change.  For example
Linux, as it boots, will tell you all
kinds of things.  "Such and such
interface is depracated and will
no longer be supported" and other
messages like that, of a seemingly
ominous nature.  No big whoop.  When
the stuff doesn't work anymore you
will notice it then if it matters
to you.

It really doesn't matter much
for a lot of it.  It might be a 
left over udev rule from some
device that you don't even use anymore.
It could be a configuration
file in the wrong place.
Yes, deal with these.  But
these kinds of warnings
are rarely show-stopping 
emergencies. 

I saw a bootlog viewer
somewhere in the tools which
seems like a new thing for FC13.
I went to look for it, but
I can't seem to find it again.
Oh well, if I do find it again
then I may decide to write
about it here.


  WP. 2:25 PM May 28, 2010