Hi, On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday, 2010-12-09 at 00:44 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote:
It should work, but I doubt this scenario is a supported upgrade path.
As in: do not skip any releases in genera, or just in this case?
I mean, i upgraded several 11.1 (dom-U) machines directly to 11.3 without any problem, while upgrading 11.2 dom-0 towards 11.3 resulted in unbootable systems, that had to be completely re-installed....
Just so.
It is very typical to not upgrade to every version. It was always a supported scenario, to upgrade from any of the currently supported versions to any of the currently supported versions.
Now, suddenly, this SuSE tradition is dropped.
We drop features.
We drop supported lifetime.
We drop supported scenarios.
Dunno, perhaps SUSE is dropping staff and the only solution is less support. Not enough money for everything.
Nothing gets dropped. Please don't blame any people here. Skipping a distribution, but anyways trying an update did always work and - i guess - will work in future too. The "official statements" about this were always like here and now - how else could they sound if someone is thinking he has to guarantee about something like that which he never thought of while doing the small steps of everyday professional work. But the "distribution quality" always did allow to try it, with a good chance of success (I only remember a fail while trying to upgrade SLES8 directly to SLES10, but that is a far wider step than the small one you are already getting officially crazy about before trying), and the distribution will stay at that quality, I'm sure. My latest positive experience was to upgrade from 10.0 to 10.3. Very smooth - I guess I only had to activate rpcbind by hand instead of portmap, and even the conversion lilo to grub succeeded without any need of intervention. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoenke@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Goettingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Oswald Haan und Dr. Paul Suren Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Goettingen Registergericht: Goettingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org