Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Monday 2008-03-31 at 11:26 +0200, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:

> Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [opensuse-factory] zypper: does not recover 
> from network hiccup.

Hey! Are you people testing a new ***SPAM*** pollicy?   :-p


> > Yes, this I tried already and worked... I still have some of the not so
> > old school of "exit and retry".
>
> In general, zypper shell is not very reliable at this point. And given the
> speed of the new libzypp in Factory, it's probably not even worth using it in
> day-to-day work.
>
> Although, any bug report is welcome and we are working on resolving the
> issues.

What do you recomend? "zypper dup" directly, not "zypper shell"?


Or Yast? Yast is out of the question for this situation. I'll explain:


I'm running 10.3 standard. On it, I mount the factory partition:

mount  /otros/test_d/
mount  /otros/test_d/boot/

mount --bind /proc /otros/test_d/proc
mount --bind /sys /otros/test_d/sys
mount --bind /dev /otros/test_d/dev

cp -f /etc/resolv.conf /otros/test_d/etc/resolv.conf

chroot /otros/test_d/


And then, I run zypper to update/upgrade factory. I did that to upgrade 
one of my _test_ partitions, previously 10.3 stable, previously 10.3 beta, 
to 11 alfa, and it worked fine.

Yast GUI refuses to work in this situation, something about X 
display permissions. Yast ncurses works, but not all sections. The 
software module failed.

Thus I resorted to zypper: first upgrade zypper itself, then the entire 
thing. It worked fine, I must say, although it took 12 hours downloading. 
Certainly, I can not stop my machine, boot factory, and wait for a 12 
hours download while I sit looking!


So, the procedure for upgrading a factory partition from inside another 
"stable" partition worked quite well, and the resulting factory booted 
fine later. Although a procedure to use zypper or yast to upgrade another 
partition would be nicer ;-)



- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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