On Friday 25 September 2009 02:33:10 pm Linda Walsh wrote:
So you now have an 11.2 beta system
????say what?!?? NO wonder I'm having all sorts of problems!
if you didn't run "zypper dup" in a root terminal, you should still have your 11.1 system, albeit with a bunch of factory (beta) repositories added in.
I thought it was the latest updates for 11.1.
it isn't. in openSUSE, "factory" stands for beta release, and there are warnings all over the place not to use it for production systems. (i am using factory releases of openSUSE and KDE for my work all the time, but am aware that things may go wrong and keep backups of important data on a different machine, just in case.)
It would also be interesting to know how you did the update from 11.1 to 11.2, and how many of your packages still are on 11.1 level
I have no clue...I just went into yast and thought I was updating my 11.1 packages to the latest patch level.
you find the appropriate repositories here: http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Repositories
It's a critical server. Is there a 'roll-back function like on windows?
I.e can I tell it to reinstall the latest updated versions of the 11.1 packages?
you'll have to go through your repository list using yast or zypper, remove all repos that have "factory" or "11.2" in their URL, replacing them with the 11.1 versions. then run "zypper dup" from a root terminal, and everything should be restored to it's proper 11.1 state. (i'd recommend reading thru the man page for zypper (man:/zypper in konqueror makes that easier than "man zypper" in a terminal) so you know what you're doing.) should there be dependency issues that zypper can't resolve, you'll have to sort them our using yast--and make sure you got all necessary repos in their 11.1 versions added, enabled, and refreshed.
FACTORY isn't a clear name at all.
BETA is much more clear...FACTORY in common parlance implies "stock" (undecorated).It certainly doesn't imply "preview" items, or items that haven't been released to the general public.
Example -- often items/goods (and even software) has an option to return your device or product to 'factory' settings -- that's not necessarily default -- but that's as it was shipped from the factory. If an item goes through post-factory processing before it gets to you, then 'defaults' may be different from factory, though that is rare. But Factory never implies pre-released products (except maybe in the openSUSE world). But I didn't think that carried over into yast...
i can follow your logic, but it's been this way in openSUSE for a long time, 'factory' meaning 'beta.' had you read through some of the web pages dealing with installation and updates under http://www.opensuse.org, you would have been aware of this.
Do you have any suggesions on how I reinstall the latest 11.1 packages. I have backups, but it would be hard to do whole disk restores without losing other work I've done in the interim.
see above. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org