Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2532 mails)

["John Andersen" <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Sam Clemens <clemens.sam1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity from reading this thread.
> >
> > I have a couple of machines running, which were originally a 10.0 install.
> >
> > I have done 'live' upgrades of those systems, 10.0 -> 10.2 -> 10.3, and
> plan on going -> 11.0.
> > I haven't run into any of the problems described in this thread, or
> perhaps I missed a point ?
> >
>
>  All of those versions use glibc6, so there's no mid-upgrade
>  replacement of glibc5.
>
>
> > I've used the smart package manager for all the upgrades, and my procedure
> have been as follows:
> > Remove all repos
> > Add repo's for new version
> > Do a smart upgrade --update
> > Remove all packages on the system, which is not in the new repo's (get rid
> of those packages that was available for e.g. 10.2, but not 10.3)
> > Both machines function fine, and are not a mess. So, have I been lucky, or
> would this be a safe procedure ?
> >
>
>  You didn't have to replace glibc, so it's rather trivial.

But I did a 9.3 to 10.1 in-place upgrade (which I thought included
the glibc upgrade) using Yast Upgrade (essentially the same process
Sylvester mentioned using on-line repositories) and it worked fine.

There was one reboot, and it worked fine.


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