Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

[Toni Harbaugh-Blackford <teelynn19@xxxxxxx>]

This would be fantastic!  The "Install into Directory" feature of is 
not present in OpenSuse, so
this would be a *VERY* welcome feature indeed.

Thanks,
Toni


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From: Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: OS-factory <opensuse-factory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 7:45 am
Subject: [opensuse-factory] upgrade idea for the future

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Hi,

An idea for the future, how to install a full system upgrade:

   Based on existing system in root partition A, do a full upgrade
    installing in root partition B instead, while system in partition A 
is
   still running.

It is almost a new install, except that the configuration is taken from
the running system, and should have the classic *rpmnew etc files to
review.

Does it makes sense? Sounds feasible?


Some people in fact install new versions on a different partition 
keeping
the previous one intact. In case of problems they can revert to the old
system instantly, and both are available for study. The method I
propose could make upgrade less scary :-)



- --
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson

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