is this a stupid idea?

[Gooberlx2]

I was thinking of upgrading an opensuse 10.2 installation to 10.3, in-place by just changing the package repositories to the 10.3 repos and doing an online update.

I read somewhere that it should work, even though it's not the recommended route. I don't have a separate partition for my home folder, and I have some software that is a total PITA to re-install located on the system partition anyway.

So...yeah, while nothing is mission critical. I'm more-or-less curious to see if it'll work without totally breaking.

 

[Nothinman]

If it's not supported I'd be pretty leery of trying it without a backup. It really depends on how major the changes are between 10.2 and 10.3 and how well the new packages upgrade from the previous versions.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Hmm...maybe I'll try to do it in a VM first.

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, that would be a much better idea =)

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Yea, that would be a much better idea =)

Against all odds, my laziness is quite driven.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

I believe there should be some sort of system upgrade module in YaST. 10.3 was light years ahead of the trash that was 10.2. But you know that OpenSuSE 11.1 is right around the corner, right? I would start working on backing up everything and do a system upgrade to 11.1 when it comes out. I'm drooling over it right now.

 

[sourceninja]

It seems silly they do not have a way to do this. I've been using the same ubuntu install from 6.06 upgraded each time on my development server.

It's seemless and works great.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I believe there should be some sort of system upgrade module in YaST. 10.3 was light years ahead of the trash that was 10.2. But you know that OpenSuSE 11.1 is right around the corner, right? I would start working on backing up everything and do a system upgrade to 11.1 when it comes out. I'm drooling over it right now.

Yeah....as much as I like 10.3 over 10.2...and 11.0 over both..I've decided not to screw around with this machine (work computer, special software, total PITA, etc...). Unless something catastrophic happens anyway that forces me to completely wipe and reinstall the system.

I agree with sourceninja, that there really ought to be an easier way to accomplish these sorts of things with opensuse though. Form readins the opensuse forums, even minor version upgrades are a PITA for lots of people...not to mention major ones like 10.3 to 11.0. Opensuse does a decent job with the simplicity in Yast...but it's lacking in this area. In my experience, Ubuntu has been totally dominating that aspect for years.

 

[Nothinman]

It seems silly they do not have a way to do this. I've been using the same ubuntu install from 6.06 upgraded each time on my development server.

Yea, Debian's been doing that for years so by extension Ubuntu should be pretty good with it but I've heard some horror stories.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

It seems silly they do not have a way to do this. I've been using the same ubuntu install from 6.06 upgraded each time on my development server.

Yea, Debian's been doing that for years so by extension Ubuntu should be pretty good with it but I've heard some horror stories.

i dont bother doing it with ubuntu after i tried it once.

i went from 7.04 > 7.10 and after *hours* of being stuck doing the upgrade (and this was well after the release, so servers werent that busy) i said fuck it and did a clean install.

 

[sourceninja]

Yea, I've seen horror stories too. Only my personal machine goes from version to version. But we did upgrade 14 servers from 6.06 to 8.04 without a single issue. (We only run LTS on servers for obvious reasons).