Hello,

I have a production Alpha box running 1.5.2 with 3rd-party packages from
pkgsrc as well as some locally-installed applications.  I would like to
upgrade to 1.5.3, but I don't want to lose my /etc, /usr/home, or other
vital directories.

What would be better:

1.) backup everything important, do a full install from CD, then restore
important stuff by hand  [this sounds terrible]

2.) backup everything important, install over the top from CD, then make
sure the upgrade didn't wipe anything out  [this sounds okay, assuming
that the upgrade process will only overwrite files and not reformat/delete
things not present in the base install, and that it will either leave /etc
untouched or create a copy of it]

3.) backup everything important, install over the top from CVS using "make
build"  [this is preferable, with the same assumptions as above]

Thanks for any advice.

-bp
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# bryan_at_darkforest_dot_org
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