three versions installed in parallel
Dear Carl, In your response to the quaestion "SLE] Suse 9.3 which repositories effectively replace the old apt repositories?" you said: ------------------------- FYI, I have all three versions installed in parallel on this system: 10.1 is in 'massage' mode pending complete resolution of the rug/zmd issues. 10.0 is my perfectly running and completely customized daily desktop system. 9.3, my former (equally customized) daily desktop, is booted weekly and kept current with respect to updates and maintained as my 'fallback' system. All three are running the same apps at the same versions and are linked to common data sets. -------------------------- I have only two versions running on my system. 9.3 perfectly running and 10.1 amazingly running quit okay. I have tried to link apps like kmail, firefox and Skype to common data sets but have not come further than symlinking /.Skype in my home/cons on the 9.3 version with ~.Skype on 10.1 It works in so far that Skype can be both used without any loss of data on both versions of Suse. But updating Skype is a differnt thing and I assume I must have made a basic error. The Skype on version 9.3 tells me it is the 1.3.0.38 and Skype on the symlinked version on the Suse 10.1 still shows it is the 1.3.0.30 version. Something is not completely right with my idea. How do you keep common data sets?
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:20, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
I have only two versions running on my system. 9.3 perfectly running and 10.1 amazingly running quit okay. I have tried to link apps like kmail, firefox and Skype to common data sets but have not come further than symlinking /.Skype in my home/cons on the 9.3 version with ~.Skype on 10.1 It works in so far that Skype can be both used without any loss of data on both versions of Suse. But updating Skype is a differnt thing and I assume I must have made a basic error. The Skype on version 9.3 tells me it is the 1.3.0.38 and Skype on the symlinked version on the Suse 10.1 still shows it is the 1.3.0.30 version.
Something is not completely right with my idea. How do you keep common data sets?
Hi Constant, I keep my desktop environments and application versions the same across all three installations. I only upgrade/update programs when I can maintain the same versions across all three. Dynamic 'real data' (Kontact, for example) lives under my primary (daily) system and is symlinked to from the alternate installations. Other data, which is static or, at least significantly less dynamic (Skype or GAIM, for example,) is 'mirrored to match' by hand on an as-needed basis. I know at first glance that it sounds like a PITA to maintain, but the contents of all three environments are always readily accessible. My /home looks like this: /home/carl93 /home/carl10 /home/carl10-1 /home/Documents Each carl* has the same UID, so there are no permissions/access issues. Also, wherever '~/Documents' appears in each environment, it is a link pointing back up to the shared 'Documents' directory. No 'syncing' problems at all. hth & regards, Carl
On Thursday 24 August 2006 07:19, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:20, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
I have only two versions running on my system. 9.3 perfectly running and 10.1 amazingly running quit okay.
Hi Constant,
I keep my desktop environments and application versions the same across all three installations. I only upgrade/update programs when I can maintain the same versions across all three. Dynamic 'real data' (Kontact, for example) lives under my primary (daily) system and is symlinked to from the alternate installations. Other data, which is static or, at least significantly less dynamic (Skype or GAIM, for example,) is 'mirrored to match' by hand on an as-needed basis. I know at first glance that it sounds like a PITA to maintain, but the contents of all three environments are always readily accessible. My /home looks like this:
/home/carl93 /home/carl10 /home/carl10-1 /home/Documents
Each carl* has the same UID, so there are no permissions/access issues. Also, wherever '~/Documents' appears in each environment, it is a link pointing back up to the shared 'Documents' directory. No 'syncing' problems at all.
Dear Carl, Understanding is half of the problem. Get your picture. My next addition (either replacing 9.3 or 10.1 because of disk size restriction) will be named cons10.?. Right now 9.3 is cons (abbrev. from constant) and the 10.1 is constant. That as such is more or less same as your setup, only I am sometimes lost as where I am working. They are both the first installed user so that is okay. The most important info is only upgrading/updating of programs when you can maintain the same versions across all three. Up to now I just update whatever there is new. Had my problems with that of course. With your system, which of the rpm packages are you looking at (I am using Kmail and I always forget in which package it can be found) and where and how do you find out if they have the same version number. Do you have that automated? My documents are in the meantime a separate directory in /home and I like it ;).
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