On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 03:06:01AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2011-12-09 at 18:18 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 01:50:45AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
I have that email archived in my computer for reference:
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:39:31 +0100 From: Stephan Kulow <> To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] "zypper dup" from 11.2 to 11.4?
Am Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2010 schrieb Gerald Pfeifer:
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Stephan Kulow wrote:
In the past, we recommended to use the dup feature to upgrade from 11.2 to 11.3. I'm wondering whether it will be supported to upgrade directly from 11.2 to 11.4 and thus skipping one version (11.3)?
It will not be supported - even if it may work.
Not supported by who?
And, as a corollary, who supports the upgrade path from 11.3 to 11.4?
(And what does support mean to begin with, in the context of openSUSE?)
I forgot to answer this: lack of support in the context of openSUSE means RESOLVED/INVALID
Well, that is the official statement to be on the save side. That's what the project cares about and pays attention to. But what works and what must work due the requirements of SUSE Linux Enterprise is what I care as a user about.
And in case you don't trust me, I'll locate the URL. [...] Here you have:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-12/msg00145.html
A zypper dup across two versions is not supported, said by Kulow, so it holds. Even if it works. His words, not mine.
Oh I remember, I tried to explain this to you too. Go, check the archive. ;)
I did. You told me to support it myself if I wanted it.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2010-12/msg00165.html
|> Dude, openSUSE is a community project. Show your commitment to test all |> these upgrade pathes and we're all happy to review your wiki document.
Your words.
Well, it never was officially supported. As said before that's the satement. Nevertheless we might do it and even encourage advanced user to do so too. But with a big, big warning and but. Here what counts is that it works (for me). And each user must balance between the available skills and the potential risk. Therefore Coolo's statement is on the safe side. While I might be more the gambler. This is all a question of personal experience and skills. Also the move from i586 to x86_64 isn't supported. It works too but the risk to cause trouble is much higher than in the case of an upgarde skipping one version in between. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany