Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2576 mails)

[Allen Zhu <allen.jaloola@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/26/09, Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 23:11:53 Allen Zhu wrote:
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Update_SUSE_to_next_version
> [...]
> > Anders, what about this method?
>
> I have used it (or something similar to it) in the past. At one point, my
> server went from suse 8.something (8.1 or 8.2, can't remember) to 9.3 without
> ever booting from the cd.
>
> But it can present problems, and it's not a method I would recommend to
> someone who isn't highly experienced at solving sometimes critical problems.
> As a small example, at one update,  rpm got updated to a version which was
> incompatible with the previous version of glibc, before glibc was updated, and
> then the update got interrupted. rpm then refused to start.
>
> It wasn't overly difficult to solve (rpm2cpio worked, so I manually unpacked
> the new version of glibc) , but I wouldn't recommend placing other people in
> similar situations, if you're not very sure of their competency level. I would
> make the warning at the top of that page bigger.
>
> However, in 11.1 I'm told zypper can handle this, so it may be something we
> can do when 11.2 comes out.
>
> Anders
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Yeah,

But I think people need to update the wiki.

The updating instructions point to:

OpenSUSE-Stable
or
10.3

Which is wrong. Just do a quick Google Search and that's the top
result and it's real old. That's not good.

Anyways, it's the method there right now. I mean, people who don't
have fast connections take a long time to download it. Like I can
download it in about 1 hours at work, 6 at home.

Thanks,

Allen

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