Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Hartmut Meyer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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 fun!

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Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@xxxxxxxxxxx>