On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:24:52AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday, 2010-12-09 at 00:44 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote:
It should work, but I doubt this scenario is a supported upgrade path.
As in: do not skip any releases in genera, or just in this case?
I mean, i upgraded several 11.1 (dom-U) machines directly to 11.3 without any problem, while upgrading 11.2 dom-0 towards 11.3 resulted in unbootable systems, that had to be completely re-installed....
Just so.
It is very typical to not upgrade to every version. It was always a supported scenario, to upgrade from any of the currently supported versions to any of the currently supported versions.
Never it was. And I'm using SUSE since quite some time. Thanks Eberhard btw again for the first floppy disks and later CDs. ;) Talk to people knowing what they talk about and stop fud'ing, please.
Now, suddenly, this SuSE tradition is dropped.
Dude, openSUSE is a community project. Show your commitment to test all these upgrade pathes and we're all happy to review your wiki document. Even a report, that it worked for you to move your 11.1 to 11.3 is a contribution. Look, moving from i586 to x86_64 worked for me on several systems very well. Nevertheless I'm quite sure we must not ever support this.
We drop features.
Sorry, please give me an example what you have decided to drop.
We drop supported lifetime.
I asked myself why we're not having some kind of Long Time Pain Program for _some_ openSUSE releases? And there was a recent blog from Wolfgang about this at http://www.rosenauer.org/blog/2010/11/30/community-powered-long-term-support... I'm supporting this approach for Samba as well as Jeff's suggestion of a rolling distribution. We're now doing more or less regular rolling releases for Samba versions in openSUSE _and_ SUSE Linux Enterprise for many, many years. We're offering current Samba version for a long time. First at ftp.suse.com and download.samba.org and nowadays at the openSUSE Build Service. See the network:samba: path and http://en.openSUSE.org/Samba We're not "officially" offering = supporting all Samba versions, but we're feeding all products with newer Samba version from time to time. And these version also are covered by full support if you need it and if you're willing to pay. Cf. http://en.opensuse.org/Samba/Versions_in_SUSE_products
We drop supported scenarios.
No. This is FUD.
Dunno, perhaps SUSE is dropping staff and the only solution is less support. Not enough money for everything.
No. FUD too. SUSE is staffing. Check the HR page if you're looking for a new opportunity. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany