a question if you do not mind. we are going from SLES 11 SP2 to SP3. we also use an SMT server. when you upgraded did you follow the below outline:
copy SP2 Core and Update repositories in the SMT /etc/zypp/repos.d directory to SP3 edit the newly copied files to change references from SP2 to SP3 run zypper ref, zypper in, zypper or and zypper upd cmds ? I attended the susecon 2014 conference and I got this information from suse development On Monday, December 1, 2014, Mark Pace <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there an updated procedure for updating a SLES11 SPx to SLES 12 using > zypper? > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Mark Post <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > >>> On 7/22/2013 at 07:10 AM, "Will, Chris" <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > We use smt for our repositories. I went through the procedure and the > > test > > > server was upgraded successfully. I deleted/removerepo the old SP1 and > > SP2 > > > repositories, however any subsequent suse_register (say moving from > > "full" to > > > "testing") brings back the old SP1 and SP2 repositories (they are > > disabled > > > however). > > > > I contacted out Product Manager for maintenance about this and was told > > this is by design. > > > > "I have always tried to use "adapt the repo model" and not roll back... > > > > "The idea behind this adapted model, was to enable customers to easily > > access > > the old repo if they need to stay on older versions of specific packages. > > > > "So, for the lifetime of SP3 and SP4, this channel model will remain in > > place." > > > > So, again, apologies for my incomplete understanding of how things were > > going to work with SP3. > > > > > > Mark Post > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] <javascript:;> with the message: > INFO LINUX-390 or > > visit > > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > > > > -- > The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent > Mainline’s positions or opinions > > Mark D Pace > Senior Systems Engineer > Mainline Information Systems > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <javascript:;> with the message: > INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
