Archive for November 2009

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

Posted on November 11, 2009, 10:03 pm, by Jeremy Pavlov, under advanced, opensuse11.1, opensuse11.2.

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 [...]

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Handy little “zypper up” script

Posted on November 2, 2009, 4:35 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, opensuse11.1, zypper.

I run quite a few Opensuse (mostly 11.1 at the time of this writing) servers in what you might call “pseudo-production” mode.  For some of those servers, and especially for my test lab servers, I like to have them as up-to-date as possible by using some type of call to zypper in a cron job [...]

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