On 10/21/2012 12:25 AM, JtWdyP wrote:
I don't know what happend to this, But it seems my reply didn't make it to
But whether you read that or not, may I strongly suggest that before you run "zypper dup" on a running system, do first back up your system partition(s) with clonezilla or something. That way if they are right and "zypper dup" is more risky than ubuntu's "apt-get dist-upgrade", and your system gets borked. You'll still be able restore what you had via the backed up partition(s)
Have fun with it...
Thanks for the reply. I looked over the forum, and it seems like the gist of it is that zypper dup is dangerous when done just as a plain zypper dup, but the post does not seem to reflect much on the use of the different options with zypper dup. I have upgraded to KDE 4.9 several times on a few different machines using zypper dup and the --from option, and they have all gone very well. I have also done the upgrade using yast change system packages, and I did not feel like there was much difference. It seems that as long as you have your repositories set correctly, they are basically the same thing. I have not done a backup when I did that, but now after reading your post I think I will make a backup image before I do a zypper dup again, just to make sure I don't destroy my system. Thanks for the tip! -- G.O. Box #1: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | ATI Radeon HD 3300 | 16GB Box #2: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB Laptop: 12.2 | KDE 4.9.1 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org