<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>If you want to upgrade an existing installation, then you should use the<br>normal package management tools to do so, not the installer.
</blockquote></div><br>My "dist-upgrade" went terribly wrong, even though I knew I had to run it many times, as well as the "-f install", which i regard as wrong in itself already.<br><br>Rather than telling one should upgrade using the package management, while there is no tool everyone can use to do so, I'd have the installer force people to have separated partitions for data (/home and maybe /etc) and system, or do so by itself, if auto partitioning is chosen by the user, and then make the distribution so that you can only upgrade by installing a new system, which automatically adds the existing home and comfiguration folders.
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