On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:42 AM, HG <hg.list@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
I did 3 11.3 => 11.4 migrations in the last month.
I did all with zypper in zypper; zypper dup.
what does zypper in zypper do (or mean)? Updates zypper itself or?
Yes, Assume for a minute that there is a design issue in 11.3's zypper that causes zypper dup to fail. It has been the opensuse policy to release the redesigned zypper in the following release (11.4 in this case). Thus if 11.3's zypper has a issue with doing a zypper dup, the safe way to upgrade is to first pull down zypper from 11.4. It will have a number of dependencies, so it will pull down a significant number of packages, but nowhere near the full upgrades worth. At least in 11.1 and 11.2 days, it was recommended you start your zypper dup style upgrades by upgrading zypper first. I no longer see that advice on the wiki, so maybe things have smoothed out now. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org