OS upgrades are painful

[scott at gnuveau.net]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Bipin Gautam wrote:

> On 3/18/07, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Must we overwrite everything with a disk image? Most of the data
> > doesn't need to change.
> >
> > I'm mostly dogfooding here. I install development tools (gcc, make,
> > joe, cvs, libSDL), check out my source code, etc. My only real cheat
> > is to ssh in from a machine with a reliable space bar. A nand flash
> > overwrite means I have to reinstall everything, S-L-O-W-L-Y.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> yes good question!
> why doesnt the devlopment build have GCC, rpm, cvs and many other
> needed tools? Or are we too fearful to confront 512 mb is NOT enough
> storage?


could you put the applications utils on a usb stick or so, mount it and
amend your PATH env variable to make the binaries available after a OS
upgrade?

Scott

>
> regards,
> -bipion
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