-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2008-10-13 at 13:56 -0000, r wrote:
Carlos E. R. <robin.listas <at> telefonica.net> writes:
Yes, upgrading booting the install DVD is the recommended method to do upgrades. Safer and "supported", in as much as anything is supported here.
ok but : is there difference between an online upgrade and a dvd-iso-image local upgrade ??
Yes, a few. The main one is that, with a dvd upgrade, the main system is stopped, and the job is done from another linux. It can write anywhere without problems, there are no complications of a program being running at the same time that its libraries are being replaced with new ones. It works because the program is fully loaded in memory, but weird things can happen (like trying to run a program with a mixture of libraries and kernel modules). For example, the problem of having to upgrade first rpm does not exist. Nor any similar problem. Disadvantages? Probably slower, a part of the memory is occupied with a ramdisk, and things are read from a slow dvd instead of HD. I prefer not running the risk on my "production" or main partition. However, I do run "zypper dup" on a chrooted factory, and that is also risky. But being the factory partition, it doesn't matter if it is screwed. I don't even bother to back it up, except a few configuration files and data. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjzYCEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XtLwCdF2oHJZB7Yk3KuAfhyhqdFSNC RM0AnAkopI6uYYKKobscW2oJcjAQ14iG =HVNT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org