Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[js <fyrbrds@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:

>
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> There has also been many post in the past from people whose KDE was 
> rendered more or less useless after a manual install.
>
> The original poster wanted to know how to use YaST for upgrading KDE, 
> and he was told how.
>
> Advertising unofficial unsupported upgrades will only make them easier 
> to find. If the upgrades contain bugs that take down YaST then the 
> method of upgrading does not matter. YaST will have been taken down 
> when the bugs are installed.
>
> Best regards :o)
>
> Johnny :o)


Also a good point Johnny.  There are two problems however:

1. suse's kde update page clearly states that these packages are not 
supported.
http://www.suse.de/en/private/download/linuks/index.html
suse provides them because so many people want to upgrade kde 
mid-release, but have trouble compiling it themselves.  Despite that, 
suse clearly wants no part in your upgrade process which explains why 
yast doesn't offer this option.  And it's no accident that most people 
don't know how to do it.  SuSE is not offering this info freely, you 
have to dig for it.

2.  As I said earlier, this list has no shortage of "yast doesn't start 
after update" threads and quite a few of them start after playing with 
the change-install-location option.  In fact, I had that happen to me 
once and after 2 weeks worth of trying suggestions on how to fix it, I 
gave up and reinstalled.

Until yast is intelligent enough to be pointed to a directory full of 
rpm's and can upgrade without the specific yast-source dir format, 
upgrading things that aren't added to the upgrade list by suse will be a 
bit difficult.  Of course I only see it that way because I think linux 
is great for everyone and not just gurus.

John S.