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From: Kevin Miller on 1 Jul 2010 15:05 13 days to go! When 11.2 was released one of the goals that was talked about was having an version update process similar to Debian's where one can (fairly) painlessly go from one release to the next rather than having to do a fresh install. How is that working out? Will it be ready for prime time or is a fresh install still advised? -- Kevin Miller Juneau, Alaska http://www.alaska.net/~atftb In a recent poll, seven out of ten hard drives preferred Linux.
From: Chris Cox on 1 Jul 2010 15:20 On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 11:05 -0800, Kevin Miller wrote: > 13 days to go! When 11.2 was released one of the goals that was talked > about was having an version update process similar to Debian's where one > can (fairly) painlessly go from one release to the next rather than > having to do a fresh install. How is that working out? Will it be > ready for prime time or is a fresh install still advised? > Debian's upgrade is NOT painless.. it all depends on what you have done to your system. With regards to openSUSE upgrades, I've been pretty pleased with the results when I've done upgrades. Again, I think it depends a lot on what you've done (esp. with the non std repos), so perhaps I was just lucky.
From: Malcolm on 1 Jul 2010 15:27 On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:20:59 -0500 Chris Cox <chrisncoxn(a)endlessnow.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 11:05 -0800, Kevin Miller wrote: > > 13 days to go! When 11.2 was released one of the goals that was > > talked about was having an version update process similar to > > Debian's where one can (fairly) painlessly go from one release to > > the next rather than having to do a fresh install. How is that > > working out? Will it be ready for prime time or is a fresh install > > still advised? > > > > Debian's upgrade is NOT painless.. it all depends on what you have > done to your system. With regards to openSUSE upgrades, I've been > pretty pleased with the results when I've done upgrades. Again, I > think it depends a lot on what you've done (esp. with the non std > repos), so perhaps I was just lucky. > > Hi Yes, if you've added third party, OBS repositories you would need to ensure they are all built and up to date with respect to 11.3 before using zypper dup. I still prefer a clean install, I have a script to just setup softlinks to my config files on a separate partiton (not /home). You could also script out adding repos and the zypper in to add your other applications? eg; zypper ar <some_url1> 'repo1' zypper ar <some_url2> 'repo2' zypper ar <some_url3> 'repo3' zypper in <this_app> <that_app> <some_app> etc -- Cheers Malcolm ��� (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.32.12-0.7-default up 6 days 2:46, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.01 GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 256.35
From: Ulick Magee on 1 Jul 2010 15:34 Kevin Miller wrote: > 13 days to go! When 11.2 was released one of the goals that was talked > about was having an version update process similar to Debian's where one > can (fairly) painlessly go from one release to the next rather than > having to do a fresh install. How is that working out? Will it be > ready for prime time or is a fresh install still advised? zypper dup has been around since at least 11.1. IIRC at least one regular poster here has used it successfully to go to 11.2 -- Ulick Magee Free software and free formats for free information for free people. Open Office for Windows/OSX/Linux: http://www.openoffice.org openSUSE Linux: http://en.opensuse.org
From: mjt on 1 Jul 2010 15:38
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:05:33 -0800 Kevin Miller <atftb2(a)alaska.net> wrote: > 13 days to go! When 11.2 was released one of the goals that was talked > about was having an version update process similar to Debian's where one > can (fairly) painlessly go from one release to the next rather than > having to do a fresh install. How is that working out? Will it be > ready for prime time or is a fresh install still advised? Personally, I have multiple partitions set up to accommodate the "rotation" of 4 OS version installs and /home resides in its own partition for sharing among the installs. For example: +------+------+------+-------+-------+ | 11.0 | 11.1 | 11.2 | 11.3 | /home | +------+------+------+-------+-------+ Here we have 5 partitions where a different version of openSUSE lives and then one for /home, so that each version can share it. I have 11.3 RC1 installed and use it for testing, but my current stable version (where I do all my serious work) is 11.2. When the final release of 11.3 comes out, I'll download the Delta ISO and apply to to the recent ISO (rather than downloading the 4.x GB ISO), and install it to the 11.3 partition, as a fresh install. I've done "upgrades" in the past, but find it much less problematic to just do a fresh install - it doesn't take that much longer and I can customize the install exactly how I want it. When I feel that 11.3 is stable and everything works the way I want it, I'll switch GRUB to [auto] boot into 11.3, versus 11.2. I'll keep 11.2 around just in case I've discovered that some 11.3 package doesn't work for whatever reason (and is critical to use). Sometimes, I might not use some software for a month or two down the road. Although I show 11.0 and 11.1 in the two other partitions, they don't exist anymore, but other Linux distros live in those partitions for testing and variety. AAMOF, I have 25 partitions across 3 drives that have quite a few different Linux distros (plus BSD) :) -- "... the Mayo Clinic, named after its founder, Dr. Ted Clinic ..." - Dave Barry <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>> |