-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Klaus Kaempf schreef:
* Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> [Apr 19. 2007 01:13]:
* Updating openSUSE:
What options do users have for updating from one release to the next one? Which of these will we support? Some current options: - Boot from CD - zypper update - System Update 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).
I must say that i very convieniently upgraded the system with yast on both 32 and 64 Bit platforms, from 102B1 upto 'retail'. No problem at all...(if one uses the factory installs and no 'packagers paradise' updates..(no offense meanth to anybody;-) The factory installs are stable as hell on the machines i have and am using. With a fully 'costumized' system, i have noticed that they break, when nessesary pkgs are not yet in the repos. The nessary knowledge for 'new' users will be to have their /home on a seperate partition, which can be mounted, if wanted, to have back all their custom config. (this is the far greatest advantage against MSW, because of the difference of importance: System?, or User? To me it is obvious that the user is the most important, because he/she is the one who uses the System. To MS the system is, so the user has to install everything all over again, which can be 'horror' in some cases, and this will prevent people from upgrading: the fear of loosing all they have, or the uncertainty to have forgotten to back-up something they need afterwards.... I think, most important, is to take away this fear for upgrading, by simplifying the way to 'list' all pkgs and deps, installed on a system, and insert this list into an installer, such as Yast fi, so the 'custom' users-system, can be established, if the user wants, when all repos are updated. (versions and deps can be solved the usual way) Who knows *all* 'obsolete', or 'replaced' pkgs anyway? So I think this advantage must be sort of 'flagpole' for the better use of Linux, because it is by far the better philosophy...
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.
Until now, we didn't get sufficient customer request for this to justify the effort.
Klaus --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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