Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Hartmut Meyer <hartmut.meyer@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:51, Jon Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:06, Jon Nelson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
> > > >   http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/thallma_you_oldpatches.html
> > >
> > > Yeah, that sounds like it, but here are some points:
> > >
> > > 1. if you can't upgrade a running system (Debian can, most others can)
> > > without BOOTING FROM THE CD or DVD, then why does YaST have the option
> > > available?
> >
> > You can add other installation sources that provide newer (but non-core)
> > packages like
> >
> > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source
> >
> > And than use this YaST2 module to update all available packages.
>
> That's not what I'm talking about.  I'm talking about the "System
> Upgrade" option/component of YaST.  It's sole purpose is to upgrade the
> entire system (say, from 9.2 to 9.3), and despite no warnings or
> problems encountered along the way, apparently, it doesn't /quite/ work.

That's the one I meant.

I know it is confusing and many people belive that this module is meant to do
an update of the running system from one release to the next, but it is not.

Did you read the manual? It's chapter 2.3.4 "System Update" (SUSE Linux 9.2)
in the big Admin manual.


Greetings from Stuhr
hartmut