How do I update to pre-release version

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Hi,

I want to check out pre-release version. If I change my repositories to factory repos, and do a distribution update, would it work? Or should I do something else?

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You can change your repositories to factory, and do a distribution update.

Command:

zypper dup

Right now they are at openSUSE 11.5 Milestone 0.

Remember to have fun!

Romanator

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Hi, one more question, are these correct factory repos to update to?

Index of /factory/repo/oss
Index of /factory/repo/non-oss

And isn’t there an update or packman repo for factory?

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  1. Update Repository

I guess this would be something like
Index of /update/11.5

http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.5/

But as I understood the policy for the factory distribution this 'update_ repository is mostly empty → there are only sometimes a few (fake?) packages added to that rep just for testing the (automatic) update programs.

This is in my opinion because the factory distribution is a (not stable) rolling release and the main (oss, non-oss) repositories get constantly updated (and are not fixed like in a stable release like openSUSE 11.4, …, openSUSE 11.x).

  1. Packman repository

These (clones) are to find under /suse/Factory/Essentials/
with the URLs from ftp://packman.links2linux.de/pub/packman/MIRRORS for

like Index of /suse/Factory/Essentials

http://packman.unixheads.com/suse/Factory/Essentials/

Compare:

You may also have a look at:

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On 03/24/2011 03:36 PM, yasar11732 wrote:
> Or should I do something else?

solve the problems you have with 11.4, because it is highly unlikely
you will find the fixes to any problems you now have are in the code
in Factory…

don’t do it, you will be sorry…but, it IS your machine and the
others have given you all . . .

–
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.1.8, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11

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On 2011-03-24 15:36, yasar11732 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to check out pre-release version. If I change my repositories to
> factory repos, and do a distribution update, would it work? Or should I
> do something else?

Don’t.

Install on a secondary partition.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

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Oh, surly. I did not thought that yasar11732 wanted to replace a stable version - just to know a way to have a running factory installation.

I though yasar11732 would know that Factory is the name of the unstable distribution of openSUSE and should not be used for productive work - just for testing to help yourself and others to have a following working stable release…

And as there is no milestone for the unnamed [11.4+x] released jet - shall yasar11732 better try to use one of the automatically build and not at all tested iso images (currently: Build0026) from
Index of /factory/iso ?

An advantage may be that he will be able to test it as a live system before installing.

But until now there seems to be no automatic testing been done with the Build0026 according to:
openQA.opensuse.org

puzzled pistazienfresser
(Martin)

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Hey,

Thanks for all the advices, I decided to not to try unstable version, as I don’t want to have 2 different versions lying around, and it seems like I can’t use factory version for normal use. But my question is,

Would it be really that unstable to prevent me from doing daily stuff. All I actually do is, use browser, mp3 and movie player, and office software from time to time.

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On 03/27/2011 07:06 PM, yasar11732 wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Thanks for all the advices, I decided to not to try unstable version,
> as I don’t want to have 2 different versions lying around, and it seems
> like I can’t use factory version for normal use. But my question is,
>
> Would it be really that unstable to prevent me from doing daily stuff.
> All I actually do is, use browser, mp3 and movie player, and office
> software from time to time.

From the reopening of the Factory repo following the release of the GM, there
are no guarantees that anything there is stable, or will even run. All you know
is that it has built…

As for trusting those builds, I am a member of the Testing Core Team and it is
my duty to test those builds; however, my testing is restricted to installing in
a virtual machine with its minimal hardware and isolated disk. Only when we
reach M5 or M6 do I even consider installing in a real machine. I have extra
partitions that I can use for both / and /home. Only when I am confident that it
is not going to blow up and destroy the file systems do I edit /etc/fstab and
allow the new release to see my real /home.

You would probably be able to do real work at the moment; however, the quality
goes way down before it starts to improve. Unless you want to devote your entire
time to testing, I would stay with stable for the next 6 months, or so.

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On 2011-03-28 02:06, yasar11732 wrote:

> Would it be really that unstable to prevent me from doing daily stuff.
> All I actually do is, use browser, mp3 and movie player, and office
> software from time to time.

Depends on how good you are on solving problems on your own >:-)

There are no guarantees.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

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I did an update from 11.4 to factory at the week end and everything is working fine. There were about 550 updates for a kde system - which has given me 11.5 milestone 0. Quite a fair number I thought since 11.4 is still so new.

Nothing mega different (although factory does give you kde 4.6.1) but it does seem a touch faster (dolphin, konqueror etc).