On Wednesday 07 January 2004 9:25 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
To my knowledge you cannot upgrade the versions via FTP ie 8.2 to 9.0 or other, SuSE has to make money somehow and hence the need to purchase a boxed set. HOWEVER you can use FTP to update the apps under 8.2 as current as possible for your base code.
You could update to a full 9.0 system by downloading the complete collection of rpms from the 9.0 directory at the ftp website. However, downloading everything would take a very long time, I'd think. You can also download the latest version of particular programs the same way. What you can't do, as far as I know, is to automate the whole process so that you download only those packages that have newer versions in 9.0 without human intervention. Paul Abrahams