Thomas Hertweck wrote: > I have always been a bit confused by this terminology in YaST - it's > called "YOU = YaST Online Update", but also "System Update". I have > learned a long time ago from a wise and clever teacher that one should > distinguish between an update[1] and an upgrade[2]. So maybe it might > help to avoid confusion if the item currently called "System Update" > could be renamed to "System Upgrade". Just a simple idea, but maybe > others didn't have such wise and clever teachers and therefore don't > know about the difference... ;-) > > Cheers, > Th. > > [1] update = installing a bug fix, security fix, etc.; for SuSE, it > usually means installing a new RPM package with the same version > number but a later build number (release). > [2] upgrade = installing a completely new version of a software, i.e. > the RPM package has a new major/minor version number.
Well, with these definitions, System Update is just that, a System Update. It shouldn't be used to upgrade to a completely new version of the system (e.g. moving from 10.0 to 10.1). It should be used for when you have a source of rpms and you want to mass update them. For example from the supplementary packages on the suse ftp site, or from a packman mirror site. Online Update is reserved for the official security patches and bug fixes released by suse/novell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
