Thomas Hertweck wrote:
I have always been a bit confused by this terminology in YaST - it's called "YOU = YaST Online Update", but also "System Update". I have learned a long time ago from a wise and clever teacher that one should distinguish between an update[1] and an upgrade[2]. So maybe it might help to avoid confusion if the item currently called "System Update" could be renamed to "System Upgrade". Just a simple idea, but maybe others didn't have such wise and clever teachers and therefore don't know about the difference... ;-)
I agree the terms YaSTt Online Update and System Update are confusing. Once I tried System Update I ended up stupid enough with a System "Downdate" instead, back to the original installation CD version:; Besides, there are New Installation and Upgrade (installation) booting the installation media. Regarding Upgrade installation from one beta to the next, currently 10.1 b2 to 10.1 b3, I wonder if it isn't possible to ease this process. I think others like me decline to spend a day or more downloading the whole bunch of 5 CD iso's for each, now quite often beta release, which needs several hours on low connection line speeds (even using usable 4 Mbs ADSL), burning 5 CDs and a couple of hours installation time at last. (yes, I've also tried the Internet Installation which hung after booting from harddisk, and then I started from scratch to download the CD isos yet). Therefore I wonder, how large part of content is really changed? If it would be fairly easy adn possible to pack only the changes (upgrade part) on one single beta upgrade CD, it would have been much more attractive and saved a lot of time at downloading and installation upgrade. Rgds, Terje J. Hanssen