-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-02-08 at 09:15 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:17:04 +0100 (CET) Eberhard Moenkeberg <> wrote:
Nice. Please do it and report here. I'm sure it works, at least it should this way.
Actually, the more I think about it, I'm not sure if it makes such a big difference if the system is "live" or "offline" updated. The RPM postinstall scripts still run in a chroot()ed environment, don't they?
If you will experience show stoppers, they have to get solved.
I agree, but I am not the product manager :)
Uch! In any case, I would not use zypper, but booting from the install DVD, so the running kernel during the upgrade would be 64 bit.
OTOH, similar problems could be experienced during an update to a completely incompatible libc version (not likely to happen, but still...) and similar, so it is a good Idea to solve them.
It might be hard to impossible to implement the "online" upgrade to an incompatible architecture (x86_64->i386 or x86->ppc), but "offline" should be possible (the new installation also must cope with the "no compatible libc present" problem for bootstrapping).
I really have to try this ;)
I'm very tempted to try it. Several people either encouraged me to try, or say they have actually done it. However, Kulow saying that any bugzilla on this will be "wontfixed" automatically, is a pail of cold water on our illusions. You see, I'd like to try, I'm not risking data (it is a backup install). I would happily ask for help in the list if required, and report confirmed issues on bugzilla, for improvement next time, but knowing beforehand that they will be ignored... it is very discouraging. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktwa5AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U9ewCaA/Vn+2k6Yf41exVMDza10asO yrcAniVg3+3QY9GMO1KDZXlyOXqWGv3M =pdYs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org