I got several failure notices from MAILER-DAEMON@suse.com:
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:31:39 GMT
Message-Id: <200002212231.WAA43882@maxwell.syr.edu>
From: "James P. Bennett"
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
In-reply-to:
References: <00021923081600.00314@mossdog>
Subject: [SLE] install from partition: where does Yast read version info?
Return-Path: suse-linux-e-return-17461-frenux=hetnet.nl@suse.com
(Bear with me; the machine I'm trying to upgrade is on the other side
of campus, so I may not get file names exactly right)
Here's a restatement of a previous question:
In trying to upgrade from 6.1 to 6.3 from a partition, Yast reads the
contents of the 6.3 version fine (evident because it correctly lists the
package versions).
But it doesn't read the SuSE version info &/or medium age correctly,
so that, when one goes to update, Yast says, "installation medium is
older than installed system ... nothing to be automatically updated."
1. Am I in the correct Yast menu? Shouldn't it distinguish between
update and upgrade?
2. Where does Yast read the information relevant to age of
installation medium? I'm no C++ programmer and find the source
very confusing. VersionNumber.cc
seems to mark the upgrade files as "OLDER" if no version info is available. I
had wrongly assumed that Yast used .S.u.S.E.disk1... to determine
the version.
jim bennett
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