[brlug-general] SuSE......wow who'da thunk it

[Andrew Baudouin]

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.
> > ...
>
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