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

[Ronnie Gilkey]

I dunno about the empire, I've _never_ upgraded across several (or one)
M$ release successfully.  I think they're still lacking in that
department as our many other operating systems.

I think the SuSE development team just has a good handle on cataloging
RPM changes (what's new, what's obsolete, what package names changed,
etc.) and how to preserve package configurations properly.

Ronnie

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EdsLinuxBox wrote:
> It undoubtedly went so well because of the "deal" executed between Novel
> and The Evil Empire. Were it not for that "deal", you would have surely
> borked your installation. :) 
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:18 -0500, willhill 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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