On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 3:59 PM, John Andersen
On 5/21/2013 12:52 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Officially you would upgrade from 12.1 to 12.2, then 12.2 to 12.3
That is certainly the most tested approach, but several people have also reported success going straight from 12.1 to 12.3
I've never seen that official recommendation to single-step each upgrade. (Not saying such isn't recommended in some obscure place, juta that its pointless.
I've gone directly from 11.4 to 12.3 with an inplace upgrade with zero problems.
You got lucky :) (but I agree it normally works from what I see people post) After a rpm is installed there is a %postin (post install) section of logic that gets run. If there is a config file or on-disk structure change that has to be addressed during an upgrade, that's where it is done. The devs can add as much backwards compatibility to that as they like, but it is only required that a smooth upgrade from the previous version is supported. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org