Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Robert Sweet <rsweet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 09:31:42PM +0200, Anders Johansson Wrote:
> On Saturday 23 April 2005 20:24, Robert Sweet wrote:
> > Novell better let the folks from Germany do
> > the work.
> 
> They are.
> 
> Where have you been the last 10 years? Upgrades have always been dodgy. 
> Upgrading 3000 packages is a very tricky thing
> 
> As for your problem, check which modules are loaded. I haven't seen a system 
> with this problem, so I can't confirm it, but I have heard rumours about 
> system upgrades that resulted in systems that didn't load modules properly 
> afterwards
> 
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1. Did the 1-5 Multimedia Updates....xmms does not play
MP3...inconsequential. 

2. Yes, I know about backups...DLT has a problem right now, so I
took a risk, and it is okay now, cyrus is back up and
running, fixed DBERROR. Still have mail :)

3. I have done upgrades before without a problem, lucky?
Maybe so, but then again why have an upgrade path? 
Clean installs are not always the most practical.
But not a big deal. Well I guess, I just have never seen a
upgrade go so bad before. I prolly won't be upgrading for a
while, might just put Enterprise on it and leave it alone.
Sad thing is I like the latest...just don't want to have to
reconfigure everything for clean install. 

Guess I should have not said anything seeing all I got was
flamed...just trying to alert people that this was not a smooth
upgrade. I do have a USB DVD +/-, which I bought mainly so I
can read the SuSE DVD's, the only problem is you cannot
install from it. The upgrade broke something in the USB too.
It has not been until the last two releases or so that
there are so many missing packages on the CD's, at least
that have affected my systems. I can live with installing
Enlightenment after the core system is installed, but I
would not expect Cyrus-Imap to be on the DVD, while
Cyrus-sasl is on the CD, that just doesn't make sense.
Anyway everything is better now, sorry if I offended anyone
with the Novell/SuSE comment, SuSE just seemed more solid
before...hey I could update from GWDG before, but since 9.2,
someone decided that wasn't an option (a little manual
intervention changed that though), thus my sentiments that
Novell was more in charge now...I would rather be able to
pick from any mirrors, not just U.S. ones. Sorry for the
morning bitch session, everything is hunky dorey now.