On Saturday 27 October 2007 04:58:55 am Stan Goodman wrote: > > Using 'Update previously installed system' option will attempt to update > > all 10.2 packages (including base system and kernel) to versions > > available in 10.3. I'm 99% sure there will be a lot packages that are not > > on single CD and it will produce dependency problems with large number of > > questions asking you to solve problems manually [2]. > > > I started to d/l the DVD Thursday afternoon with KTorrent; it looks to > finish the operation by Sunday morning. That opens the possibility, > according to my understanding of your comments, of doing an upgrade from > the existing v10.2 in situ,
What means 'situ'? > and letting it do the package upgrades as > required. As I understand what you have written, this should solve the > dependencies all at once. That would mean accepting the online > repositories. With DVD there is small chance that you need online repositories, and if it happens that should not be monster download, so answer is now yes, you can enable online repositories. My previous comments were for single KDE or GNOME CD, but as you changed your mind to DVD you can discard comments related to single CD. There will be some manual work if you have some packages that are dropped (not included) in openSUSE 10.3, but generally that is not large scale problem. I had some warning about that, but installation finished without ptoblem. Don't forget to run YOU (YaST Online Update) or command zypper up after installation. There are some essential updates (patches). Some came too late to be included on DVD, some are created after release. Some people complain on tempo of changes, but Linux and free versions of BSD are work in progress since creation. Developers doesn't wait openSUSE (or any other distribution) to be released to work on their projects. They do that all the time, and consequence is that distro is released and instantly you have patches. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
