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[Rich Edelman]

On Wednesday 16 June 2004 02:24 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:42 pm, Rich Edelman wrote:
> > I've done both upgrade installs from
> > 9.0 to 9.1 without any problems at all (that is, as long as your 9.0
> > install is somewhat stock, mainly you haven't upgraded KDE) and installed
> > 9.1 from scratch.
>
> Hmmmm.... I _have_ updated KDE (all 3 times), and I guess I remember that
> 9.1 doesn't have the KDE updates.
>
> When I have to do a clean, bottom-up install to do a version upgrade, I
> start looking at other distros.  After all, as long as I'm starting over...

I think it was a mistake on SuSE's part to ship 9.1 with an older version of 
KDE than they had available in their contrib tree. That said, I've 
successfully upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1 several times with a newer KDE on 9.0 
than I had on 9.1. The first time I had a lot of dependency errors that I 
dealt with and resolved by telling YaST not to bother 'upgrading' KDE from 
the 9.0 version to the 9.1 version.  The other time, i simply downgraded KDE 
to the version that ships with 9.0 before doing the 9.1 upgrade. That was 
pretty easy to do, but would have been even easier if SuSE used rpm 4.2 and 
repackaged everything by default, so you really could just rollback your 
rpms.

In the future, I think I'm just going to not bother with the contrib tree, 
except maybe inside a user-mode linux install, and just upgrade KDE as the 
distro itself (whatever distro it is that I'm using) does.

Rich