On 2012-02-27 15:35, William Gardella wrote:

Stefan,

In my experience and understanding, Debian Live persistence does present some issues with upgrading the underlying live system. The files found in snapshots/persistence partitions always pre-empt their equivalents on the image, which Debian Live seems to always assume to be older than the snapshot. So if you have been apt-get upgrading and installing lots of software to live-rw, for example, that will prevent any newer package versions on the ISO from being seen. With home-rw, there shouldn't be as big of a headache, but of course if you have altered the grml-installed configuration files, those versions will remain and preempt the ISO (you will have to copy over new grml user configuration manually if you want it). I don't know about GRMLCFG because I don't use it, but my guess would be that it will continue to replace the relevant bits of /etc/ exactly as it did on your previous ISO version.

So I guess it will probably save some headaches to wipe live-rw, but home-rw should be okay.

Best, Will

Thanks, that makes sense. I think I'll just play it safe and wipe all the snapshot partitions before I upgrade. It's unlikely that I'll make major adjustments to the system anyway, apart from installing a few packages and storing shell scripts in $HOME.

- stefan