[Bug 780333] New: YaST2 Wagon is insufficiently well documented, and appears to be unsupported
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780333 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=780333#c0 Summary: YaST2 Wagon is insufficiently well documented, and appears to be unsupported Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: philip@pjtait.org QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1 This is intended as a constructive comment on an issue that hinders wider adoption of openSUSE. openSUSE's version upgrade procedure is quite complex and daunting to non-experts, and does not compare well with other Linux distributions. I tried installing "Wagon" but the documentation seems to be for developers, and it is prominently described as unstable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Somehow find out that the version upgrade tool is called "Wagon". 2. Install it. 3. Discover that there seems to be little information or support for it. Actual Results: Not clear on how to use it to update my computer. Expected Results: Easy-to-use tool that checks available upgrades, checks system eligibility, and walks me through the process. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #3 from Philip Tait
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--- Comment #4 from Gabriele Mohr
Thanks for your comment.
1. I did some more digging around, and found this old article: http://old-en.opensuse.org/Wagon , so it seems at one time that Wagon was an official part of the openSUSE distribution. I also found a Forum posting indicating there was a Wiki page at one time at http://en.opensuse.org/Wagon - it seems to have been removed.
2. I reviewed the "openSUSE 12.2 Start-Up" and did not find any coverage of version upgrade procedures, other than installation from DVD. Can you point out the section, if I missed it?
Section 16 describes upgrade with YaST and zypper: http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-startup/cha.upd... 16.1.3. Upgrading with YaST 16.1.4. Distribution Upgrade with zypper -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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