Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

[stephan beal <stephan@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 15:41, abaklg wrote:
> Is it possible to do this automatically?
> Is there any "how-to" for this?
> Does anyone has any experiences with this?

As a general rule, it is not advisable to upgrade more than one minor 
version number at a time. As a more general rule, upgrades suck and a 
clean install is a better bet approximately 99.9873% of the time (give 
or take a couple thousandths of a percentage point).

Another good rule of thumb is:

"Never change a running system. Never run a changing system. Change a 
never running system."

Point being, if your app server works for you, then let it continue to 
work. Set up a secondary machine under 10.x if you need to migrate, but 
don't attempt to do it all in one go and expect to get away with it. 
You might get lucky. But stop and ask yourself, "do I feel lucky?"

Soooo much has changed since Suse 8.x, and there are tons of potential 
pitfalls for your upgrade path. You should leave yourself ample room 
for unexpected failures while you migrate to 10.x, rather than 
upgrading The One and Only System and hoping for the best.

> I did not google anything useful up to now.

Because nobody is insane enough to try to jump from 8.x to 10.x via the 
upgrade process ;).

Good luck!

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