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Re: [opensuse] upgrading between versions of openSuse
- From: Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:18:15 -0500
- Message-id: <200702101418.15722.bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 10 February 2007 13:45, Rami Michael wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know many threads have talked about this before, but I was wondering
> if there was a definitive thread that is considered the ANSWER or best
> of breed for this topic. My questions and scenarios are this.
>
> #1. For example, if you install opensuse 10.0 and only use the Novell
> based openSuse repos then you can pretty easily upgrade to 10.1 or
> 10.x. However, lets say you use 10.0 and you install smart and some
> other common repos like jenglh. Now you are outside of the "known"
> packages. Are you now unable to do a regular update using the new
> openSuse DVD?
>
> #2. Is there a common way or is it even possible to upgrade between
> 10.x and lets say an 11.x ? Is this supported at all? I only heard
> horror stories from people going from 9.3 to 10.x
>
> As always, thanks for any help/opionion.
>
> Regards
Ok, here's my definitive answer to this:
If you BACK UP your system before doing anything, then you are free to try to
upgrade from x to y whatever that may be. If you like what you get, you
are fine. If you don't like it, just restore and nothing lost.
If you don't back up your system, you are leaving yourself open to a world of
hurt if things don't go right. And someday they won't go right.
Additionally, if you do an upgrade and have some problem, whether minor or
major, you're not going to know whether it is something that crept in while
doing the upgrade (maybe an incompatibility) or a new bug within the
upgraded system. Kinda leaves you wondering what to do about it..
I once upgraded from SuSE 8.0 to 8.1, didn't have a back up, and it barfed
all over the place. I ended up doing a fresh install of 8.0 and never did
go to 8.1
Since that time, I ALWAYS do fresh installs, leaving the previous system
intact in it's own partitions. Works well.
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> Hi All,
>
> I know many threads have talked about this before, but I was wondering
> if there was a definitive thread that is considered the ANSWER or best
> of breed for this topic. My questions and scenarios are this.
>
> #1. For example, if you install opensuse 10.0 and only use the Novell
> based openSuse repos then you can pretty easily upgrade to 10.1 or
> 10.x. However, lets say you use 10.0 and you install smart and some
> other common repos like jenglh. Now you are outside of the "known"
> packages. Are you now unable to do a regular update using the new
> openSuse DVD?
>
> #2. Is there a common way or is it even possible to upgrade between
> 10.x and lets say an 11.x ? Is this supported at all? I only heard
> horror stories from people going from 9.3 to 10.x
>
> As always, thanks for any help/opionion.
>
> Regards
Ok, here's my definitive answer to this:
If you BACK UP your system before doing anything, then you are free to try to
upgrade from x to y whatever that may be. If you like what you get, you
are fine. If you don't like it, just restore and nothing lost.
If you don't back up your system, you are leaving yourself open to a world of
hurt if things don't go right. And someday they won't go right.
Additionally, if you do an upgrade and have some problem, whether minor or
major, you're not going to know whether it is something that crept in while
doing the upgrade (maybe an incompatibility) or a new bug within the
upgraded system. Kinda leaves you wondering what to do about it..
I once upgraded from SuSE 8.0 to 8.1, didn't have a back up, and it barfed
all over the place. I ended up doing a fresh install of 8.0 and never did
go to 8.1
Since that time, I ALWAYS do fresh installs, leaving the previous system
intact in it's own partitions. Works well.
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