Lukas Ocilka wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to completely rewrite the $SUBJECT in installation and you have an opportunity to say how do you think it could look and what could it offer to do or how.

I've filed a blog entry about the $SUBJECT at http://kobliha-suse.blogspot.com/2009/01/system-ugrade-previously-used.html

Bye Lukas

A solution worth to explore is to start using variables like $releasever in the .repo files. So repos with 11.1 would automaitcally be 11.2 afterwards. Of course still there is the need to check that those repos are valid. Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:

A solution worth to explore is to start using variables like $releasever in the .repo files.

So repos with 11.1 would automaitcally be 11.2 afterwards. Of course still there is the need to check that those repos are valid.

Yes, it sounds reasonable for this case. Of course, that would have to be changed on several places (community repositories, one click install files, ... zypper, YaST). L.

Lukas Ocilka napsal(a):

I'd like to completely rewrite the $SUBJECT in installation and you have an opportunity to say how do you think it could look and what could it offer to do or how.

Ignoring the technical details ;), a cool feature would be detecting and automatically deleting the old distros main and update repository (and non-oss, src, debuginfo, etc), because these are going to be obsoleted by the new distro in all cases. The user would then only need to decide about the repositories which were added manually. BTW I also like Benji's idea of self-upgrading repositories. Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

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On 1/13/2009 at 5:30 PM, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: Lukas Ocilka wrote: Hi,

I'd like to completely rewrite the $SUBJECT in installation and you have an opportunity to say how do you think it could look and what could it offer to do or how.

I've filed a blog entry about the $SUBJECT at http://kobliha-suse.blogspot.com/2009/01/system-ugrade-previously-used.html

Bye Lukas

A solution worth to explore is to start using variables like $releasever in the .repo files.

So repos with 11.1 would automaitcally be 11.2 afterwards. Of course still there is the need to check that those repos are valid.

I remember having this requested once (basically having the openSUSE version as a varibale in the URL). https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264862 It got 'closed / fixed' for openSUSE 10.3... I never got around to test that though. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Maybe I totally misunderstood this, but I understood this blog entry as a feature request. If I'm correct, then this is almost done. Except the automatism it is working already. I used this to upgrade from 10.3 to 11.0. I checked the repos before upgrade and than I changed the repo URIs manually to the new ones and re-enabled those. Then I ran the upgrade process and it did what it had to do. I have a bug report for this feature (#398315), it is solved in 11.1, but I wasn't be able to test that. Cheers Tamas PS: I subscribed to yast-devel list just now, so I haven't read the replies there. Lukas Ocilka wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to completely rewrite the $SUBJECT in installation and you have an opportunity to say how do you think it could look and what could it offer to do or how.

I've filed a blog entry about the $SUBJECT at http://kobliha-suse.blogspot.com/2009/01/system-ugrade-previously-used.html

Bye Lukas

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Greg Freemyer napsal(a):

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Michal Marek wrote:

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Lukas Ocilka napsal(a):

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I'd like to completely rewrite the $SUBJECT in installation and you have an opportunity to say how do you think it could look and what could it offer to do or how. Ignoring the technical details ;), a cool feature would be detecting and automatically deleting the old distros main and update repository (and non-oss, src, debuginfo, etc), because these are going to be obsoleted by the new distro in all cases. The user would then only need to decide about the repositories which were added manually. BTW I also like Benji's idea of self-upgrading repositories.

Michal

Agreed, it would be nice if each repository had the ability to say

"applies to 10.3-11.1" ie. 10.3,11,0,11.1 "applies to 10.3" ie. 10.3 only "applies to 10.3-" ie. 10.3 or higher "applies to -11.1" ie. 11.1 or lower

That's not what I had in mind (repositories usually only apply to one version of the distribution). My suggestion was: If you are updating from 11.1 to 11.2, then these repositories http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/ http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ should be deleted automatically, because the installation of 11.2 will add it's own oss, non-oss, update and so on repos. Maybe repositories could obsolete other repositories just like packages obsolete other packages. BTW: Lukas, why do you cross-post to opensuse-factory and yast-devel, when both lists reject posts from non-subscribers? Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org