Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (949 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 18:04 -0300, Marco Calistri wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, 2009-08-16 at 13:39 +0200, houghi wrote:

> > > > >  As from 11.2 there will be an 18 months support instead of the 24
> > > > >  previously.
> > > >
> > > > That's bad news. :-(
> > >
> > > Not if we have a tool to upgrade without server downtime. ;-))

> > To me ending support life after 18 months, means no more updates
> > available whatsoever.
> >
> > Do I lost something?

> What he's saying is that with a better improved zypper with in-place
> live updating, it would be less painful for some people to update and
> the 18 or 24 months become less relevant.

And - not to forget if you have "users" at your servers - you can fulfill 
the request for newer versions of this or that package much easier.

If you can rely on the "dist upgrade" tool...


Viele Gruesse
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)

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