Re: [yast-devel] updating / upgrading

Karl Eichwalder wrote:

There, once again, seems to be some confusion about the terms update/updating and upgrade/upgrading. It is Novell policy, _not_ to use upgrade if you talk about software issues. "Upgrade" is strictly reserved for hardware issues.

In short, do not use the word "upgrade". Unfortunately, I do not know where all this is documented. Probably in one of ours (SUSE/Novell) style-guides...

Hmm... In YaST: * update means "replace packages with their newest versions" e.g., System/FACTORY Update: "openSUSE 10.3 Alpha3 -> openSUSE 10.3 Alpha4" * upgrade is used for "updating" from one released product to another e.g., "openSUSE 10.2 -> openSUSE 10.3" This could change a lot of things :( L.