How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 11.1 to 11.2?

UPDATE, early/mid 2010:  The majority of this post is mostly useless, except for history’s sake.  It was originally written before 11.2 even was released, and the process still works, but…

The Opensuse crew and the community put together a nice set of documented steps to do the in-place upgrade much more easily than what I originally experimented with here.  So, here is a link to the full document with those convenient steps:  http://wiki.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade

And here are those steps in summary/short/paraphrase (thanks everyone):

zypper modifyrepo --all --disable
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.2 OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/ repo-11.2-oss
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.2 Non-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss/ repo-11.2-non-oss
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.2 Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ repo-11.2-update
zypper in zypper
zypper dup

Now, back to the original post from November 2009:

First, see this post for background…  don’t worry, I’ll wait…  Okay, you’re back?  Good.  Let’s continue…

At the time of this writing, t’is the night before Opensuse 11.2 is released.  And I just happened to find a mirror or two that were set up in advance, and decided to have some fun.  I was hoping to easily duplicate my Opensuse 11 to 11.1 in-place upgrade cheat sheet, but as it turned out, this time it is not so easy.

So below, please see my working scratch-pad of my in-place upgrade of Opensuse 11.1 to 11.2 cheat sheet.  Remember, the important point here is that we want to be able to do this without downing the server…  oh, that’d be the easy way…  *We* want to be able to do it without having to drive to the remote site where the server sits, get it?

Caveats:  At the time of this update (see below), I’ve only tested it on two 32-bit machines and two 64-bit machines…  So, please realize, you’re doing this at your own risk…  don’t do this to your machine without backing up, or imaging it in the first place! Honestly, while figuring this out, I just kept throwing packages at it until it worked, so some of these might not be needed, but I know it worked for me…. And in the end, they all get updated anyway, right?

So here we go….

For both 32-bit and 64-bit:

(Update @ 200911131438 for addition of 64-bit)

cd /etc/zypp
mv repos.d repos.d.old
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss openSUSE-11.2-Oss
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/non-oss openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss
(optional) zypper ar http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/11.2 packman

For 32-bit ONLY:

rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/libselinux1-2.0.80-5.2.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/liblua5_1-5.1.4-6.2.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/liblzma0-4.999.9beta-2.2.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/libpopt0-1.13-4.2.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/rpm-4.7.1-6.7.3.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/libzypp-6.21.2-1.1.1.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/libreadline6-6.0-18.3.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/libaugeas0-0.5.0-2.2.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/libstdc++44-4.4.1_20090817-2.3.4.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/satsolver-tools-0.14.10-1.1.1.i586.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/zypper-1.2.8-0.1.3.i586.rpm

For 64-bit ONLY:

rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libselinux1-2.0.80-5.2.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/liblua5_1-5.1.4-6.2.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/liblzma0-4.999.9beta-2.2.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libpopt0-1.13-4.2.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/rpm-4.7.1-6.7.3.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libzypp-6.21.2-1.1.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libreadline6-6.0-18.3.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libaugeas0-0.5.0-2.2.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/libstdc++44-4.4.1_20090817-2.3.4.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/satsolver-tools-0.14.10-1.1.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/zypper-1.2.8-0.1.3.x86_64.rpm

Now back to both 32-bit and 64-bit:

zypper ref
zypper dup

…And that’s all… just reboot and it should be fine.  Oh, and don’t forget to add an update repository… For example:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2 openSUSE-11.2-Update

And for pete’s sake, if you find flaws above, or a better way to do it, please let me know!  Thanks!

🙂

2 Comments

  1. Chris Heaton

    Tried twice to upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1 on my remote server. Each time worked fine till the reboot and then although the server shows as active I can no longer connect to the Plesk Control Panel or contact the server via SSH. If I do a remote reflash to 11.0 it all starts to work again.

    Any idea why after the upgrade I can no longer contact the server.

    Chris

  2. Jeremy Pavlov

    @ Chris –

    First, just to be sure, you’re posting this comment under my 11.1 to 11.2 upgrade post, so I’m not sure if you were attempting to go from 11.0 to 11.2 accidentally… My 11.0 to 11.1 upgrade post can be found here: http://yourlinuxguy.com/?p=169

    Second, I have to admit that I don’t use Plesk, so I don’t know what’s going on there. You don’t mention what sort of errors or any output that you see at boot time on the console of the upgraded server; like is it a grub problem, broken initrd, etc., etc., etc…

    If you’re able to supply more detail, I’m hoping something will jump out at us…

    8)

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