Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Anders Johansson wrote:

> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 22:10, Richard Bos wrote:
> > Op woensdag 1 juni 2005 22:07, schreef Jon Nelson:
> > > If that could be solved, I think upgrades via apt would ROCK.  I don't
> > > understand what can't be taken care of at rpm installation time that
> > > /is/ taken care of by installing from the media.  If I knew what it was,
> > > I could take care of it myself. Honestly, I'd really like to know, even
> > > if it's not a technically feasible thing to accomplish, I'd like to know
> > > what, exactly, is done at install time /other/ than installing RPMs.
> >
> > Perhaps it is the /etc/SuSE-release file or is
> > it
> > /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000002/DESCRIPTION/description?
> >
> > IS_CACHE_0x00000002 may have different names....
> 
> No, it's /var/adm/YaST/ProdDB/prod_00000001
> 
> Just replace all instances of the old version number with the new

If that's true, then I was able to do that approx. May 7th, although 
mine is prod_00000002.  Hmm.  I wonder what /that/ means. I did upgrade 
the box from 9.1 (had to install a CDROM temporarily).

I'll note that the grub stuff didn't get updated, either, although 
that's just a detail. Still, there must a some place this stuff is 
listed (update grub menu, fiddle with /var/adm/YaST/...., etc....)


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Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>