On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Greg Freemyer
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Greg Freemyer
wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Shayon
wrote: Hello guys, Now the [Upgrade]page of openSUSE wiki is completed and has been merged with [How to migrate to a new openSUSE version]as it was mentioned in that page.So now,I would request others to please go through it and respond with reviews.I'll be very grateful .Thank for your support for the betterment of openSUSE.
Warm Regards Shayon(warlock)
I assume you mean:
http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade
It would be nice to see at least a reference to: http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade/11.2 or maybe it is there and I missed it. Admittedly 11.2 is not out, but it is just a month or two away.
Regardless, my biggest complaint about the entire "zypper dup" process is the handling of repositories.
See: http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade#Adding_the_OSS_repository http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade#Add_more_repositories
I recently filed a bugzilla against factory because from 11.1 I tried to do a zypper dup upgrade and it failed leaving me with a text only interface.
As the wiki instructions indicate, I added the OSS and non-OSS repository and then tried zypper dup. When this failed I opened a bugzilla.
I was told I failed to read the documentation and that I should have disabled several of my previous repositories prior to upgrading. Thus is was a user error, not a bug.
Where that documentation is I have no idea. But the above links don't cover the issue either, so at a minimum they are incomplete a truly important way.
Also, per http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade/11.2#Command_line
you have to "run SUSEconfig" prior to reboot. Or maybe that is only for upgrades to 11.2?
I took another look at the wiki page and saw it does address previous repos. Not sure how I missed it the first time.
For good or bad, it calls for removing all previous repos.
mv /etc/zypp/repos.d /etc/zypp/repos.d-backup
Is that really the community recommended approach?
I was thinking of someway to disable all existing repos at a minimum would be good, but to actually remove them seems pretty drastic to me. And I assume they cannot be selectively restored from that backup.
That seems totally counter to the OBS approach where many of us have multiple repositories we pull extra packages from.
If this is the community's recommended approach, the Upgrade/11.2 doc needs to reflect this.
Greg
I added a note in the 11.2 Upgrade about the above as another way to handle the existing repos. http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade/11.2#Command_line Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org