On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:50:45AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Wednesday, 2011-12-07 at 17:34 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
Any opinions, observations, or pit-falls, in upgrading an 11.2 install to 12.1?
depends of what is in your install. But in my own situation, I wouldn't try it but do a fresh install
Don't listen to him. Do an upgrade as real man do it! ;)
Honestly, upgrades work quite well. I've done so for several openSUSE 11.4 systems an some 11.3.
Some via zypper from inside the running old system and some by booting
A zypper dup upgrade across two versions is not supported. Any bugzilla on this will be WONTFIX inmediately. It is on the archive, I asked.
Please quote the URL to the archive. This is quite easy and makes it easier to follow. Oh I remember, I tried to explain this to you too. Go, check the archive. ;) It's right, the most safest way is to go from version to version. But you ever heared about SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE)? This product shares the code base with Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat, or with openSUSE? Well, in between the SLE releases there are several openSUSE releases. While a huge parte of the code is shared between them. And the final step to help you to follow is: such upgrades of SLE products never work as the SLE customers missed all the small version upgrades in between? Think some minutes and maybe two or even three times about this. It's reality versus what people tell you. Each such report closed with resolution wontfix sooner or later might cause an upgrade issue with SLE products. Well, it's not your fault to argue this way. It's more an issue of the developer arguing to you.
A boot DVD and upgrade is supported, AFAIK, only between two supported versions - and 11.2 is not.
Here the same applies. HTH Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany