Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (539 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:33 PM, jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 11/03/2011 20:44, Greg Freemyer a écrit :
>
> > What is not worthwhile?  Testing and doc?
>
> no, using waggon like it's now

I admit to using zypper dup myself, but I'm very command line comfortable.

> > The tool was developed for SLED service pack updates and I assume will
> > be supported for that use regardless of what openSUSE does.
> >
> > So openSUSE is just leveraging wagon for a more "GUI" based update.
>
> in fact, not so, changing repos like it's explained in the wiki is
> common to the two ways and one have to add waggon.
>
> It could certainly be enhanced. after all, waggon have only use to get
> a new distro, why clicking on a distro name shouldn't it be enough to
> have all the steps done? (clic on "11.4" and voilà...

Fully agreed, vote for this if you like

https://features.opensuse.org/310405

> > It offers little functionality not already in the:
> >
> > update repos
> > zypper in zypper
> > zypper dup
> >
> > process, but it is more graphically attractive.
>
> don't see this.
>
> May be it's really a doc problem. How is managed the applications
> change (may be it's what "dup" do?), for example hal->udev or the
> updater applet change?

Not sure what your saying, but wagon will first upgrade the
yast/zypper software stack, then upgrade the full distro.

But you have to manually update the repos before you start it.

Greg
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