Just thought I would post on two personal expereinces of upgrading from 11.3 > 11.4. One I did zypper in zypper first, it asked about five quite complex questions, but I am experienced enough to know that mostly what it wants to delete or upgrade or switch vendor is usually ok and it worked. (Done at init 3). In this laptop I did a running upgrade at init 5, whilst continuing to surf the net and chat on irc. The only command used was zypper dup. Everything worked perfectly, I just had to remove a few out of date repos which were not essential. End result is both machines on 11.4 but dup asked far less questions. Stuart On Thursday 10 Mar 2011 08:00:36 Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Sven Burmeister
writes: If I search http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade for zypper in zypper or zypper up zypper I do not find anything. So if that is the official way of doing things, the SDB article should be kept up-to-date.
It's a wiki and everyone can change it (and does it). I do not believe in wikis, though.
I remember that it was part of the article (or its predecessor) yet since it was removed I thought there was a reason for it.
It's in the history:
14:25, 15 July 2010 Dominian (Talk | contribs) (6,054 bytes) (Removed 'zypper in zypper' as this was causing issues on systems noted in #suse on freenode)
And oviously blessed by Hennevogel.
I do not know whether they talked to the developers (I did several months ago); maybe, things changed in the meantime--but then it would have been nice to report the changes to the docs team and create an entry for the release notes...
For me a simple zypper dup worked. Without any conflicts and without any zypper in zypper or zypper up zypper. I might just have been lucky though.
It works most of the time, but it could fail at any time.
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