On 11/01/2021 04.49, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-01-10 05:30:25 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 10/01/2021 12.17, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-01-10 05:01:55 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 10/01/2021 06.09, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-01-09 06:43:41 Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 09/01/2021 13.32, J Leslie Turriff wrote: > I'm following the instructions in SDB:System upgrade, using the > zypper method. I've performed the preliminary "Make sure you are up > to date" steps successfully, but I'm having problems with the actual > update step. Even though I have removed the Packman, Wine and Font > repositories from my repository configuration, I'm getting errors > relating to components that were installed from those repositories:
Certainly. Every repo that you remove will cause problems with packages that were installed from those repos. Thus, for instance, I would never remove packman. Bad idea.
Remove only the repositories that you actually want their packages to be switched to the mainline version.
I guess I misinterpreted the instructions about disabling/enabling repositories to be remove, then add back. I'm not really sure why there would be a difference.
The instructions lag behind the progress of features in the software.
The instructions should be updated at the time features in the software change, otherwise they are worse than useless.
But those instructions are written by volunteers, typically users, not the developers that created the features. Volunteers find out the new features after finding them (by chance sometimes) and using them, experiencing them. There has to be a delay and missed features.
For instance, I wrote most of the other wiki page on the DVD upgrade method. The page needs updating, but the problem is, that these days I'm not using the DVD method because it doesn't work on some of my machines, so I don't have the current experience.
I see. So the standard practice in the *nix community is to make changes to software that performs critical operations, without providing any notice to the community that their changes will negatively affect. (A system upgrade, IMO, is something that will possibly brick a machine if the instructions for using the upgrade tools do not match the reality of the software's operation.) So upgrading my system is a matter of proceeding 'on a wing and a prayer.
Well, I have been upgrading my main system for close to 20 years, version after version. I am here :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)