Upgrade SuSE 10.2 to 10.3 with smart?

[Jani Partanen]

I'm not sure how it's goes in suse, but in fedora, there is different release rpm packages for different distro versions, when I do a distro upgrade, I first update all release packages, to get channels up-to-date.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: smart-bounces at lists.labix.org 
> [mailto:smart-bounces at lists.labix.org] On Behalf Of Peter B. West
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 3:56 PM
> To: smart at labix.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrade SuSE 10.2 to 10.3 with smart?
> 
> Thanks for the info, Jani.
> 
> I've started the process of incrementally updating rpms, with 
> a minimum of forcing. So far I have only had to force one or 
> two rpm updates, and, as far as I can tell, nothing critical.
> 
> If I want smart to switch to factory, how do I specify the channel?
> 
> Peter
> 
> Jani Partanen wrote:
> > Can't you remove dbus-1 package?
> > 
> > But what I have learn of distro upgrade on fedora, save way 
> to do upgrade is just make copy of /lib /usr/lib and /lib64 
> /usr/lib64 to some place. Then add that paths to ld.so.conf, 
> after that it's quite safe to force remove most of the 
> conflicting packets.
> > If there is lot of conflicts and you just use the force, 
> you most likely break system very badly.
> > 
> > After system is up to date and all old distro channels is 
> removed from 
> > smart and it won't give any errors, it's safe to delete backup lib 
> > folders and paths from ld.so.conf
> >  
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: smart-bounces at lists.labix.org
> >> [mailto:smart-bounces at lists.labix.org] On Behalf Of Peter B. West
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:30 AM
> >> To: smart at lists.labix.org
> >> Subject: Upgrade SuSE 10.2 to 10.3 with smart?
> >>
> >> I've just had a look at the upgrade of SuSE 10.2 to 10.3 Beta 2. I 
> >> was immediately scared off by the unresolved dependencies. I have 
> >> been using smart and the guru channel to keep my 10.2 software 
> >> updated. Just recently, I wanted to compile Gimp 2.4 RC1, 
> and I got 
> >> into a quagmire with Factory packages and raw builds, trying to 
> >> resolve unsatisfied configure requirements to get a Gimp build to 
> >> work. (I'm currently stuck on the gtkhtml build, which 
> doesn't like 
> >> the
> >> dbus-1 packages I got from factory.
> >>
> >> Has anyone any ideas on the feasibility of switching over 
> to the 10.3 
> >> packages using smart?
> 
> 
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