On Friday, February 10, 2012 17:41:39 Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
On 02/10/2012 09:07 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 10/02/2012 00:24, Togan Muftuoglu a écrit :
Interesting, I have done it many times with no side effects as yet. I start with editing /etc/zypp/zypp.conf where it describes the architecture which is normally autodetected there I put x86_64 then run zypper ref followed by zypper dup and finaly reboot with 64.
seems very good. Is this documented on the wiki? if not can you build a SDB page? I'm sure many people will be interested!
thanks jdd
Oops just to make it complete I also have the following in my /etc/zypp/zypp.conf
commit.downloadMode = DownloadInAdvance
This way if there is a problem with the mirrors or with network I make sure all the packages are actually downloaded before the install process starts
The interesting thing is that this is the approach I wanted to take but AJ (I BLAME HIM) told me it's a bad idea: he was afraid RPM and other core stuff would get updated at some point in the process and as the 64 bit binary wouldn't run on the 32bit system, the upgrade would break and leave the system in an un-boot-able state.
Togan