Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Pete Connolly <pete.connolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:00, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 February 2006 22:40, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> >> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Pete Connolly wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >
> > Right.  It didn't work for me, despite me sitting here and observing it
> > with my own eyes.  I'll take your word for it.
>
> "e.g. 9.2->9.3 etc." is a pure lie.

False statement, Eberhard.  Maybe it didn't work for you?  Maybe I spent more 
time considering the dependencies.

> > The question above still stands.  What is System Upgrade for? When you're
> > finished telling me about my own system, maybe you could answer it?
>
> Surely.
> Your base system needs to be likely uptodate, else you get a message that
> you need to boot from external, and you have no button to continue.
>
> It works from 10.0 to 10.1-beta3, and if you are lucky it will work from
> 10.1-betaX to 10.1. But it did not work from 9.2 to 9.3, and neither from
> 9.3 to 10.0.

Again, it didn't work for you.  Don't apply your failure to everyone else.  
Maybe you'd installed too many external packages?  

Anyway, this is a non-productive conversation, so I'll take myself out of it.  
Your failure in the past isn't important to me.

Good night.

Pete