Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Hertweck wrote:
> I have always been a bit confused by this terminology in YaST - it's
> called "YOU = YaST Online Update", but also "System Update". I have
> learned a long time ago from a wise and clever teacher that one should
> distinguish between an update[1] and an upgrade[2]. So maybe it might
> help to avoid confusion if the item currently called "System Update"
> could be renamed to "System Upgrade". Just a simple idea, but maybe
> others didn't have such wise and clever teachers and therefore don't
> know about the difference... ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Th.
> 
> [1] update = installing a bug fix, security fix, etc.; for SuSE, it
>     usually means installing a new RPM package with the same version
>     number but a later build number (release).
> [2] upgrade = installing a completely new version of a software, i.e.
>     the RPM package has a new major/minor version number.

Well, with these definitions, System Update is just that, a System
Update. It shouldn't be used to upgrade to a completely new version of
the system (e.g. moving from 10.0 to 10.1). It should be used for when
you have a source of rpms and you want to mass update them. For example
from the supplementary packages on the suse ftp site, or from a packman
mirror site.

Online Update is reserved for the official security patches and bug
fixes released by suse/novell