Upgrade a Distro

[Steve Anderson]

An excerpt from the upgrade.txt on a Slackware ftp site:

"Until recently, it seemed there were two routes you could go. You could
back up everything you wanted to save, and then reinstall from scratch.
As
anyone who's done this can attest, it's a tedious process and there's
almost always a couple important files that don't get backed up. The
other
option was to install the new packages over the old system. This works,
but
any old files that aren't overwritten by new ones will be left in your
filesystem. This wastes space, and makes system administration
difficult,
especially when configuration files that are ignored by the new binaries
are left behind.

The new versions of 'pkgtool' (a package maintenance tool developed for
the
Slackware distribution) should provide a clean upgrade path from earlier
versions of Slackware."

Then the upgrade.txt continues on with instructions.

Steve