I have installed Haiku alpha since its release, and I’d like to have an updated version, by using a nightly buid without deleting my /home and all the extra apps I’ve already installed.
Is there a best way to do this, or do I have to save everything, install Haiku again, and restore my saves?
You don’t have to do anything. Just install the nightly build on the same partition again, your files will still be there (if you don’t manually format the partion).
be aware all gcc2 applications will no longer work (including old beos software)
you’d better keep an archive of a working gcc4 browser at hand, because for example Bezilla won’t work anymore (gcc2). I could download a working version from haiku-files thanks to the Arora browser from TiltOS projet (box -i arora). Bezilla is much more stable though.
the BeZilla compiled 3 days ago won’t load (missing libnet.so) until you create a symbolic link from libnetwork.so to libnet.so from the folder /boot/system/lib
yes, please provide more information so we know exactly how you went about doing this. I would like to know and so would others that read this thread. Thanks.