Andi Kleen ak-at-suse.de |suse-amd64| wrote:
Here's a Customer Suggestion: Add some sort of YaST applet to manage that product database. Seems like this issue will come up for each and every upgrade,
Only for unsupported updates. Normally only updates in the same product are supported/tested, no cross updates:
e.g. SL8.2->SL9.0->SL9.1->SL9.2 and SLES8->SLES9 but no SLES<anything>->SL or the other way round.
You were lucky that it worked, but such smaller issues cannot be ruled out.
Well gee, it worked quite well, actually. That was the only glitch I can see so far (although today is my first workday with this new installation). Whether it's officially supported or not doesn't mean it's not a reasonable thing to do. Hell, I'm running Xilinx software on a SuSE system, and *that* sure ain't a supported thing, by Xilinx or SuSE; but that doesn't mean it isn't something people are going to want to do. (I'm running Xilinx software on a 64bit system, and *that's not supported either:-) So you've got at least one customer who decided it was best to go from SLES8 to SuSE9.2Pro, who had to do something because SLES8 was getting moldy, and who's glad he did it. And for future reference, in case anyone wants to do anything about it, the glitch was that the YOU update didn't account for the old SLES8 and UnitedLinux config files left behind. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at .......... But I have promises to keep, http://www........... and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."