Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

on Donnerstag, 19. April 2007, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx> [Apr 19. 2007 01:13]:
> > 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.

Yes, understandable.
However, I would happily test it instead of having to wait for every 
beta to install - which means at least 2 hours "downtime" on my 
full-blown system... (yes, maybe I should uninstall some stuff.)

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

Wrong answer ;-)
It happened more than once that someone tried to update his system 
with "YaST2 System Update" which resulted in wrong YOU-sources (from 
the old system), so everybody was warned not to use this YaST module.
IIRC, there's even a SDB article about it which states that you should 
never upgrade a running system, but always boot the install CD to 
upgrade the system.

And now you are wondering that this is rarely used and/or requested...


Regards,

Christian Boltz
-- 
Designpreise sind wie Modenschauen: Was da beklatscht wird, ist
interessant, Neu, aufregend und definitiv nicht tragbar im Alltag.
[Ratti in suse-linux]
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