Re: 1.0

[Zachary DeAquila <zachary@zachs.place.org>]

>From: Mark Constable <markc@lebunka.ion.com.au>
>
>> Hi all, just wondering if it's possible to get at the 1440 boot and root
>> disks without having to use floppies...
>
>The alternatives are all more difficult. Just peel the labels off some
>of that old DOS software...
>
>A few people have tried an upgrade-in-place from Slackware to Debian.
>The result is that not every old Slackware file gets overwritten, and
>you end up with a "combination" system. Debian's really only designed
>to upgrade itself, not other distributions.

This would be a cool feature... 'competitive upgrade' and I imagine it wouldn't
bee too hard to do *if* someone who was doing so anyway was to make a list
of what files got added/removed, etc.  Idea: change your system clock to
read sometime like, say, 1985.  Install slackware.  change your system clock
to the current time.  Install debian, overwriting any files it wants to.  Now
do a find based on files more than a (hour/day/month/year) old, which will report 
all files that are left over from the slackware install.  Take notes on what
needs to be fixed, and how to fix it, etc (maybe just delete all those things?
I'm not sure exactly what'd be necessary).  Write a script to do those things,
and distribute !  

I suspect the above method will be highly (slackware) version specific, and probably
debian-version specific also. (ie, what if someone changes where they log things?)
but it should work...

 --Zachary