Migration Assistant In Ubuntu 9.04

[Milyardo]

Odd, in all the years that I have used in linux I have never ran across such an issue (granted I gave up on using evolution years ago). Even KDE3 apps to KDE4 apps went smooth. I don't use gnome so perhaps ithe breaking of apps is a gnome feature. I even have one system that has had the same /home directory dating back to SuSE 8 and has been upgraded all the way to 11.1 with no major issues at all.

Over the past year I've gone from Ubuntu with gnome, to OpenBSD with Gnome, to Gentoo with XFCE, Debain testing/sid with Gnome, and back to Ubuntu again with GNOME with the same /home partition and had not one issue (well one with uid's not matching up but a chown -R fixed that).

[deanjo]

... causing various incompatibilities due to varying application versions (evolution: been there, done that). Then I'd rather have application-specific but fully functional migration assistants instead of untrackable breaking after having upgraded.

When all applications can guarantee good backwards compatibility though, a separate /home is indeed the way to go

Odd, in all the years that I have used in linux I have never ran across such an issue (granted I gave up on using evolution years ago). Even KDE3 apps to KDE4 apps went smooth. I don't use gnome so perhaps ithe breaking of apps is a gnome feature. I even have one system that has had the same /home directory dating back to SuSE 8 and has been upgraded all the way to 11.1 with no major issues at all.

[Vadi]

^^ what maleadt said. Setting incompatibilities are ftl.

[maleadt]

Thus why a separate default home partition is the way to go.

... causing various incompatibilities due to varying application versions (evolution: been there, done that). Then I'd rather have application-specific but fully functional migration assistants instead of untrackable breaking after having upgraded.

When all applications can guarantee good backwards compatibility though, a separate /home is indeed the way to go

[deanjo]

Dude, I'm just an Ubuntu user. Why should I even have to know what a partition is?!

Thus why a separate default home partition is the way to go.

[ethana2]

If that's the case then really your / is too large to begin with. Migration wizards such as the one being offered now actually increase the required amount of space to successfully migrate.

Dude, I'm just an Ubuntu user. Why should I even have to know what a partition is?!

[deanjo]

Because then I run out of space in my /home while I still have space in my / and have to resize stuff and whatnot.
If it were up to me, Ubuntu would default to a swap file instead of a linux-swap partition.

If that's the case then really your / is too large to begin with. Migration wizards such as the one being offered now actually increase the required amount of space to successfully migrate.

[ethana2]

Why not just have your /home as a separate partition like most sane distro's default too? No wizards required.

Because then I run out of space in my /home while I still have space in my / and have to resize stuff and whatnot.
If it were up to me, Ubuntu would default to a swap file instead of a linux-swap partition.

[deanjo]

Why not just have your /home as a separate partition like most sane distro's default too? No wizards required.

[ethana2]

I've customized my app settings for everything from Transmission to Firefox to Rhythmbox..
It needs to import everything in my ~/, as well as make a list of all my installed apps on Ubuntu and let me choose which ones to install with the rest of the OS.