Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx> [Apr 19. 2007 01:13]:
> 
> > * Updating openSUSE:
> >
> >   What options do users have for updating from one release to the
> > next one?  Which of these will we support?  Some current options:
> >   - Boot from CD
> >   - zypper update
> >   - System Update
> 
> If it isn't too difficult, I would like to have a supported way to 
> upgrade a running system. Please offer both zypper (for command-line 
> fans) and YaST2 System Update (for more mouse-orientated users).

A lot of developers here do this, so its not a technical problem per se.

However, the QA and testing effort is quite huge and getting it 'fool proof'
might be a huge task.

Until now, we didn't get sufficient customer request for this to
justify the effort.

Klaus
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