On Wednesday 30 of October 2013 10:45:03 John Andersen wrote:
You can certainly upgrade in place with OpenSuse, even skipping a couple releases without any ill effects. It does a beautiful job of it. There is no reason you would have to format or do anything with your partitions. The upgrade process will remove depricated packages, and overlay replaced ones, and leave those it does not recognize alone. Absolute worst case is you have a small amount of detritus in your system that will never be used and will cause no ill effect.
This is not entirely accurate, especially regarding systemd and its dependencies. I had an upgrade once that left systemd hung, and there is a bug report about another problem with dbus and rtkit that requires a patch for 12.3 before upgrade to 13.1. So, I would recommend, especially this time, to upgrade consecutively. That said, I have been upgrading in place for about a decade without major problems, namely problems that persist after a reboot. Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org