Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote:
> On Thursday 16 February 2006 19:59, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > Peter Connolly wrote:

> > > Online update is for delivery of patches and updates from SUSE/Novell on
> > > an 'as-needed' basis.  System update is for moving from say, version 10.0
> > > to 10.1, larger version upgrades.
> >
> > This is very much not true. If you do use it for this, you will need to
> > do some serious manual fixing, since it won't be able to handle it on
> > its own
> OK, maybe I've got it wrong, but what is it for?  I've always understood it to
> be for moving from one point version to another, e.g. 9.2->9.3 etc.
>
> It's worked for me,

It has NOT worked for you this way.

> but I do doubt that its 100% effective , I prefer to do a
> reinstallation these days.

Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)