Hello, on Donnerstag, 19. April 2007, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
* Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> [Apr 19. 2007 01:13]:
If it isn't too difficult, I would like to have a supported way to upgrade a running system. Please offer both zypper (for command-line fans) and YaST2 System Update (for more mouse-orientated users).
A lot of developers here do this, so its not a technical problem per se.
However, the QA and testing effort is quite huge and getting it 'fool proof' might be a huge task.
Yes, understandable. However, I would happily test it instead of having to wait for every beta to install - which means at least 2 hours "downtime" on my full-blown system... (yes, maybe I should uninstall some stuff.)
Until now, we didn't get sufficient customer request for this to justify the effort.
Wrong answer ;-) It happened more than once that someone tried to update his system with "YaST2 System Update" which resulted in wrong YOU-sources (from the old system), so everybody was warned not to use this YaST module. IIRC, there's even a SDB article about it which states that you should never upgrade a running system, but always boot the install CD to upgrade the system. And now you are wondering that this is rarely used and/or requested... Regards, Christian Boltz -- Designpreise sind wie Modenschauen: Was da beklatscht wird, ist interessant, Neu, aufregend und definitiv nicht tragbar im Alltag. [Ratti in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org