I've broken many a system with dist-upgrade (and emerge -U world), especially if non-standard packages are installed, I'm talking kernel panic broken. This sounds like the Holy Grail of distribution upgrades.
On 10/18/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > > Cool. It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly faster. > > On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote: > > [Suse was] smart enough to resolve all the package > > dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale / non-existent packages > > in the new version. An hour and a half later, I rebooted to find an > > OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my user / > > configuration data in place. No skips, bumps, nothing, it just worked > > -- and properly at that. I had to re-compile one non-distributed Apache > > module and I was running again. > > ... > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20071019/7565774f/attachment.html
