Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Cristian Rodriguez R." <judas_iscariote@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Klaus Kaempf escribió:
>
>> A lot of developers here do this, so its not a technical problem per se.
>
>
> I have been upgrading my factory copy with zypper since early alphas and
> seems it can manage upgrades preyy much fine except for
>
> 1. it is slow ( well, that's a general problem)
>
> 2. it emits "scary"(for users) errors and then seems to try with
> --nodeps and continue anyway.

Please file a bugreport.

> 3. it emits equally "scary" "invalid object" messages (wth means in this
> context..dunno ;) )

Please file a bugreport.

> 4. Y and N dialogs are still messed up horrible.

Please file a bugreport.

> 5. it failed to upgrade on the libbz2 split ( as well smart, yast do
> anyway..;) )

Yeah, I think that was a bug elsewhere :-(

Please report any problems with zypper, it should really become a good
tool that does not scare anyone!  Thanks!

>> 
>> However, the QA and testing effort is quite huge and getting it 'fool proof'
>> might be a huge task.
>
> yes, it is probably very, very hard to get right.
>
>> 
>> Until now, we didn't get sufficient customer request for this to
>> justify the effort.
>
> I would like to see a) upgrade with zypper b) upgrade with CD fully
> supported.


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