SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

[Myles Green]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> To clarify:  I'm wondering how the distributions compare as to upgrading from 
> one release to the next, rather than updates to the current release.
> 
> We've had one person state that SUSE's upgrade process hasn't worked well, 
> historically.  How about Mandrake and Slackware?  RedHat's is a moot point; 
> but what are Fedora's plans?
> 
> I think Gentoo and Debian can upgrade themselves without release cd's; but how 
> much breakage occurs in the process?
> 
> Except for Dep's articles on upgrading SUSE, which were enough to keep me from 
> trying (Thank you, Dep.), this isn't an issue that has gotten much press.
> 
> Andrew Gould

I used a package called 'swaret' to upgrade from Slackware 9.0 => 9.1 and it 
went very smoothly. It's not an 'official' slackware package but it *is* 
avaliable in the Extras directory. Also, there is 'slapt-get' and 'emerde'
out there; I haven't used either one but have heard Good Things(tm) about
slapt-get. YMMV

HTH & HAND

Myles

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