SDB:System upgrade – openSUSE.
Every once in a while, I feel like I have been living under a stupid rock.
This was one of these cases. About 5 years ago, openSUSE added this feature:
openFATE – #305634: Debian-like dist-upgrade live system full version upgrade.
It is awesome, requires a bit of twiddling and afterwards you have a system that:
- was updated in-place while live
- is the most current openSUSE version
I don’t know of any drawbacks yet (will soon try it). If I find ones, I will post a new entry here.
The basic steps are like these:
- Make sure you can update your system to the youngest state of the installed version number
- Fiddler with the zypper config files using a sed script to replace the currently installed version number to the target version you want to upgrade to
- Download the updates
- Update
- Reboot
- Test
- Done
–jeroen
Filed under: *nix, Development, Linux, Power User, Scripting, sed script, Software Development, SuSE Linux
