Operation Manual

The Upgrade Procedure

WARNING: Check Your System Backup

Before acutally starting the upgrade procedure, check that your system backup

is up-to-date and restorable. This is especially important because you must

enter many of the following steps manually.

Run the online update to make sure the software management stack is up-to-date.

For more information, see Chapter 4, YaST Online Update (page 81).

Congure the repositories you want to use as an update source. Getting this right

is essential. Either use YaST (see Section 3.4, “Managing Software Repositories

and Services” (page 75)) or zypper (see Section 7.1, “Using Zypper”

(page 95)).

TIP: Repository Names

The name of the repositories as used in the following steps could vary a

little bit depending on your customizations.

To view your current repositories enter:

zypper lr -u

Increase the version number of the system repositories from 11.1 to 11.2;

add the new 11.2 repositories with commands such as:

server=http://download.opensuse.org

new_ver=11.3

zypper ar $server/distribution/$new_ver/repo/oss/

openSUSE-$new_ver-Oss

zypper ar $server/update/$new_ver/ openSUSE-$new_ver-Update

And remove the old repositories:

old_ver=11.2

zypper rr openSUSE-$old_ver-Oss

zypper rr openSUSE-$old_ver-Update

Disable third party repositories or other openSUSE Build Service repositories,

because zypper dup is guaranteed to work with the default repositories

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