https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375386 User guru@unixtech.be added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375386#c2 Pascal Bleser changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |guru@unixtech.be Severity|Normal |Critical --- Comment #2 from Pascal Bleser 2008-04-05 15:41:39 MST --- For reference: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2008-03/msg00126.html and http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2008-03/msg00131.html and http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2008-03/msg00126.html People are aware of the issue but seem to think it's not worth fixing as "only upgrading from media is supported". I disagree, as it will most probably give a lot of issues to a lot of people who will ask themselves why people are assuming no one needs hot upgrading (not uncommon at all, e.g. remote hosted servers). There is a known workaround, but it has to be documented, and we all know it isn't easy to spread information like that. If the situation remains as it is now (= no fix/automated workaround in zypper), this means we have to take great care of publishing the manual workaround (upgrade the rpm package to 11.0's first before upgrading all the other packages to 11.0) as widely as possible, including in 11.0 release announcements. Hiding behind the "only cold upgrade is supported" mantra means ignoring the user base. If it is very complex and expensive (in terms of time and human resources) to implement it, OK, that's an acceptable reason not do it. But just saying "it isn't supported"... isn't. At least IMHO ;) As the current situation could cause quite a lot of trouble, I took the liberty of raising the severity from "normal" to "critical". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375386 User coolo@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375386#c4 Stephan Kulow changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Critical |Major Flag| |SHIP_STOPPER- --- Comment #4 from Stephan Kulow 2008-05-21 03:47:33 MST --- hot upgrades are about impossible in the general case. Switching from kernel-default to kernel-pae, changing from devs to dynamic udev, etc. There are so many issues with it - the rpm payload is just a tiny nuance. We can add work arounds to make it work 80% instead of 60%, but I don't consider this 20% gap critical. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.