Dist Upgrade

[Colin Law]

2009/11/3 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
> Forgot to mention that, in addition to backing up your home data, also
> backup your installed packages list so that you can easily re-install if
> you do the inplace reinstall.

A trick that I have settled on is to have a collection of scripts that
install each of the apps I use, so the script includes the sudo
apt-get install commands and so on, plus any comments on how to
configure it after install if appropriate.  For apps that need
building then it also includes the build commands, at least as
comments.  Each time I add a new app I write the script (even if it is
just the install command).  This automatically gives me a list of apps
I have installed, somewhere to put notes on configuring them, and I
just have to run through the scripts installing everything I want in
the case of a re-install of the OS.  All these scripts are in a little
git repository to keep track of them.

Colin