hello,
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Carlos E. R.
No, the method is to add the update repo while you are running the upgrade from DVD. It is not simple, on some releases the procedure does not work for one reason or other.
this sounds like an idea I already had. I normally upgrade my machines from one opensuse vanilla to the next, by inserting iso/cd/dvd media or recently via usb key and boot from those media and upgrade in offline mode. years back, when there was this pae-kernel incident, the upgrade process wouldnt select or something was bad with the kernel packages, or maybe I am mixing up bugs even, but back then I could download from my still working opensuse the latest .rpm for the kernel from the opensuse+1 release and then start the upgrade via cd media and apply the saved rpm before the mess even started. so is there an official way on how to make the install and upgrade process to recognize a locally held repo that would already be populated with crucial patches and stuff that eventually got/will have been released by the time I actually dare to do the upgrade? download all the opensuse+1/updates/ folder to my local disk still running from inside opensuse, then boot opensuse+1 media and then make the upgrade use this downloaded folder as well? any possibilities? its really a pest to suffer from bugs for which later patches might exist, but those still never will easy your pain, and the next opensuse+2 release comes with a whole new set of nightmares regarding the upgrade procedure. thanks for helping. p.s. testing the whole opensuse stuff is one thing, but when already having releases this situation needs to be tackled as well I think, its just no use of letting the users suffer. there should be an easy way to mitigate all the troubles that get found during the lifecycle of the current opensuse products, and people being late to the show and using "ancient" opensuse release media should not suffer from stuff that has been mitigated by patches but that will apparently never make it into official re-releases. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org