[sles-beta] Beta Update/Upgrade Question

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Wed, Mar 20, Klaus Gmeinwieser wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> thanks for your answer. If this works (as you tested already) - this would 
> be very very nice for me :)

At least with the update from Beta2 to Beta3 you can run into
dependency problems, see the Beta3 known issues list.

Normally any update method should work, but we don't test and we don't
fix any BetaX -> BetaY issues.

  Thorsten

> Am 20.03.2013 11:35, schrieb jrd:
>> On 20/03/2013 10:06, Klaus Gmeinwieser wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have now downloaded the Beta3 iso. As I upgraded/installed several of
>>> our Application test servers with Beta2 I need to know, which is the
>>> recommended procedure to "update" from Beta2 to Beta3 (or
>>> 3->4,4->5,...). A fresh reinstallation of all of the servers with Beta3
>>> and a complete reconfiguraton of all services is not possible for me.
>>>
>>> Please advise, what is possible on this issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot in advance & Best Regards
>>> Klaus
>> -----------
>>      A non-authoritative answer is you can employ an in-place upgrade. I
>> encountered the same puzzle when working with my test HA cluster, not
>> wanting to recreate everything again. Lars suggested quietly that an
>> in-place upgrade would be a good idea. He was correct; it worked
>> perfectly for me.
>>      Joe D.
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