Re: [opensuse] MPlayer documentation

** Reply to message from "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> on Sat, 27 Oct 2007
06:10:04 -0500

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'?

"in situ" = "in place".

Sorry.

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.

Yes. It dawned on me that there would be an advantage in having all that extra
stuff available on the DVD.

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.

I haven't installed many packages from repositories; most of my additional
programs are Java apps, which won't be touched by the upgrade. Neither will
Java itself, unless the upgrade has a Java v1.6 release.

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.

Will the proper repositories also be automatically available to YaST for this
purpose, or I have to find them in order to get the patches?

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.



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