Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (822 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 15:44 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> "Matt Standish" <mstandish@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > I am installing a few new machines to be used in a conference and I
>> > would like to show off the latest version of Opensuse.  Will there be
>> > a way to upgrade from RC2 to the final release?
>> 
>> The following worked for me:
>> 
>> zypper sa ftp-distribution (once it's available)
>> zypper update -t package
>> 
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I presume that the mentioned RC2 is an internal release?

Yes, it is.

> Two questions about it:
> on RC1 i saw that perl-DBD-mysql is not included any more
> As we use mysql a lot from perl-scripts, its an unpleasent surprize.
> Will this package be available?

It might not be on the media - but it is part of the ftp installation.


> Second one, more or less passed on the list,
> the python script that launches xen-guest is not capable anymore to
> extract the kernel/initrd from a dom-u disk-image.
> That's something that was perfectly working under 10.2.


> otoh, when i provide initrd&kernel explicitly, i'm perfectly able to run
> 10.1 guests on a 10.3 DOM-0 (both 64-bit)
>
> Is this solved?
> I presume these are "known features @suse", thus nothing for
> bugzilla....

I don't know - please search bugzilla and if it's not filled, create a
new bugreport,

Andreas
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