-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-03-31 at 11:26 +0200, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
Subject: Re: ***SPAM*** Re: [opensuse-factory] zypper: does not recover from network hiccup.
Hey! Are you people testing a new ***SPAM*** pollicy? :-p
Yes, this I tried already and worked... I still have some of the not so old school of "exit and retry".
In general, zypper shell is not very reliable at this point. And given the speed of the new libzypp in Factory, it's probably not even worth using it in day-to-day work.
Although, any bug report is welcome and we are working on resolving the issues.
What do you recomend? "zypper dup" directly, not "zypper shell"? Or Yast? Yast is out of the question for this situation. I'll explain: I'm running 10.3 standard. On it, I mount the factory partition: mount /otros/test_d/ mount /otros/test_d/boot/ mount --bind /proc /otros/test_d/proc mount --bind /sys /otros/test_d/sys mount --bind /dev /otros/test_d/dev cp -f /etc/resolv.conf /otros/test_d/etc/resolv.conf chroot /otros/test_d/ And then, I run zypper to update/upgrade factory. I did that to upgrade one of my _test_ partitions, previously 10.3 stable, previously 10.3 beta, to 11 alfa, and it worked fine. Yast GUI refuses to work in this situation, something about X display permissions. Yast ncurses works, but not all sections. The software module failed. Thus I resorted to zypper: first upgrade zypper itself, then the entire thing. It worked fine, I must say, although it took 12 hours downloading. Certainly, I can not stop my machine, boot factory, and wait for a 12 hours download while I sit looking! So, the procedure for upgrading a factory partition from inside another "stable" partition worked quite well, and the resulting factory booted fine later. Although a procedure to use zypper or yast to upgrade another partition would be nicer ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH8Mw7tTMYHG2NR9URApzxAJsGxx/KAxVDgythJyHKyZidAS6GGwCghBWO lgvf4sjmUlyMTr3No0yV5zw= =mA3K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org