[wellylug] Quote for setting up file server wanted

[Sam Cannell]

While that may work for many packages, there are those that do require
manual steps to be taken during the upgrade.

PostgreSQL is one - often the database format changes between releases,
and the new version _will not_ run unless you either convert all your
old databases or drop them all and run initdb again.  The Debian
postgres package installer will not do this for you automatically.

And when a new version of Samba is installed, how does the user know
whether they want to replace the smb.conf on their hard disk with the
package maintainer's version?  Unless they have significant Linux
experience, they're not going to know the difference between a situation
when they generally do want to replace configuration files (like
/etc/pam.d/login), and when they will almost definitely want to keep
their version, for example squid.conf.  Sure, most upgrades don't
require any manual intervention at all, but there are some that do.

Don't get me wrong - I think it'd be great if many more people had
experience using Linux.  But pushing someone in the deep end by
installing a production Linux server that they have no possible way of
maintaining adequately is *not* the right way to do it.

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Michael Bordignon
Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2004 1:54 p.m.
To: 'wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz'
Subject: RE: [wellylug] Quote for setting up file server wanted

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade


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