Linda Walsh wrote:
This topic is not intended at those who only upgrade a system by running the "official" upgrade procedure: booting from the new media boot-disk and having all packages updated at one time while the system is "offline" (not usable for other tasks).
When I say "utility" that can help me do this, I mean utility as being one of (or a combination of) a "program", "script", "collection of scripts".
I want to upgrade a 'live' system, that was based on an older suse release (suse9.3 in this case) to newer packages -- mostly from 10.3 (or 10.2 for packages that are broken in 10.3).
So -- want to have a util that can inspect my current RPM's, and pick out the updates from the target dist (in this case 10.3), find the needed deps and install them.
Your main problem will be that (1) RPMs won't be there any more, (2) RPMs changed their name without any indication what their previous or new name is, and (3) you'll need new RPMs that you even don't know in advance about and that are not listed as dependencies. Alone the name of the kernel packages and associated kernel modules have changed several times between 9.x and 10.3. Therefore, this upgrade will probably be a manual experience for you... Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org