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I've just submitted an "enhancement" request bug, with ideas on how to make platform migration as easy (almost) as a standard upgrade. Ie.: Red Hat to Ubuntu, or Ubuntu i386 to Ubuntu x86_64.
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Make Platform Migration as Easy as Upgrade 
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