-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-08-19 at 02:13 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Wednesday, 2009-08-19 at 00:11 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
can upgrade much easier than with the need to boot from installation medium.
Without _any_ downtime?
You can bet there will be a kernel update, so going down is inevitable..
Not only that. Many programs get new configuration files, with the original one moved to a backup (.rpmold). Or the old one is preserved and the new one copied alongside (.rpmnew). In any case, the admin has got to review all those before the system is fully operational after the upgrade. Some services run perfectly the first moment, some others need a lot of reconfiguration.
So, yes, there is downtime.
Please stop suggesting "it is impossible to survive a dist upgrade".
Pray, where did I say that? I'm used to do disto upgrades, I like that method, and I know very well what it takes. It is certainly not impossible, but it is false that there is no downtime.
Usually you get a mail in every case of .rpmnew or .rpmold, so you can fix if necessary on-the-fly.
HAH! Never. That feature has been lost for years. Mail is one of the things that usually breaks during the upgrade, so those mails were often lost. That's probably why it has been dissabled. Instead, there a service, crpmconfigcheck, that does a check during boot and report those .rpm* files. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqMlUMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xi3gCfdIcS2ehdTsuP4Btc1xDv025e YLsAn3h0GQ7HOJpsF7aAF5y0E5eoViV0 =OGmZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org