[opensuse-factory] Life with OpenSUSE Factory?
I'd like to run Factory as my day-to-day OS so I can help test, report bugs and even fix them where possible, and yes I'm willing to live with the consequences of running the bleeding edge. At the moment I've installed OpenSUSE 11.1b5 x64. I assume that the correct thing to do is to change my repositories to the factory ones? http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/debug/ Then run an online update? -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 2008/11/18 09:37 (GMT-0600) John Lange composed:
I'd like to run Factory as my day-to-day OS so I can help test, report bugs and even fix them where possible, and yes I'm willing to live with the consequences of running the bleeding edge.
At the moment I've installed OpenSUSE 11.1b5 x64.
I assume that the correct thing to do is to change my repositories to the factory ones?
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/debug/
Then run an online update?
I doubt online update is designed for that. Check out zypper dup before you try. And, you might want to lock the existing kernel in case initrd generation borks, so first take a look at /etc/zypp/zypp.conf at the multiversion section. -- "Love is not easily angered. Love does not demand its own way." 1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 17:37:13 John Lange wrote:
I'd like to run Factory as my day-to-day OS so I can help test, report bugs and even fix them where possible, and yes I'm willing to live with the consequences of running the bleeding edge.
At the moment I've installed OpenSUSE 11.1b5 x64.
I assume that the correct thing to do is to change my repositories to the factory ones?
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/debug/ Then run an online update?
No. Run YaST, Software Management Select from menu: Package, All Packages, Update if new version available. Online update checks for update repositories, these are slightly different than regular. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 17:01:20 Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 17:37:13 John Lange wrote:
I'd like to run Factory as my day-to-day OS so I can help test, report bugs and even fix them where possible, and yes I'm willing to live with the consequences of running the bleeding edge.
At the moment I've installed OpenSUSE 11.1b5 x64.
I assume that the correct thing to do is to change my repositories to the factory ones?
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/debug/ Then run an online update?
No.
Run YaST, Software Management Select from menu: Package, All Packages, Update if new version available.
Online update checks for update repositories, these are slightly different than regular.
No, use zypper dup. The steps above will be unable to deal with splitted packages and other tricks that change during distribution upgrade. Stano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 21:51 +0100, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
No, use zypper dup. The steps above will be unable to deal with splitted packages and other tricks that change during distribution upgrade.
Ok, I did that today and everything seemed to work smoothly. One final question; what is the proper way to keep it up-to-date from now on? # zypper up ? -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 20 November 2008 23:14:28 John Lange wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 21:51 +0100, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
No, use zypper dup. The steps above will be unable to deal with splitted packages and other tricks that change during distribution upgrade.
Ok, I did that today and everything seemed to work smoothly.
One final question; what is the proper way to keep it up-to-date from now on?
# zypper up
zypper up does the same thing as YaST2 Online Update. So, you should use zypper dup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
zypper up does the same thing as YaST2 Online Update.
So, you should use zypper dup
Actually it depends, both algorithms are valid. If you run factory, some packages will get updated in a way that it will require packages to be renamed, removed, new ones come in, splitted, etc. zypper up finds the best possible solution where these removals and splits are not needed, which may be an empty solution. But if there is a solution in this case, it will be the less intrusive update possible without breaking this rules. zypper dup updates and just go on with removing packages, splits, etc. I do zypper up every day and every one or two weeks I do dup. Also sometimes I just do zypper in libzypp to update the packagemanager and everything directly depending on it, which may be a good alternative if you are interested in one update only ;-) Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
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Felix Miata
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John Lange
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Silviu Marin-Caea
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Stanislav Visnovsky