SLES 11 SP1 migration to SP2 fails with unmet dependencies

SUSE Product Topics SLES Updates
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Hi everyone,

I just tried to upgrade/migrate our SLES 11 Server from SP1 to SP2. I followed the instructions as found under the following link: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7010200
There I sticked to section “2) Update by using zypper”. The second to last command in that section (“zypper update -t patch”) should initiate a “full migration”. However, this is resulting in the below error message

My questions are:

[LIST=1]
[]How should I proceed from here on? What does “deinstallation of product:SUSE_SLES-11.2-1.513.x86_64” exactly mean? Will it conduct a complete rollback of the installed SP2?
[]And what does solution 2 “do not install patch:slessp2-SLES-SP3-Migration-8065.noarch” mean? What do I then need to to do in order to migrate from SP2 to SP3?
[*]I guess solution 3 (“break product”) is not advisable at all, is it?
[/LIST]

Thank you very much for your time!

Best wishes
Jan

Here is the plain output from zypper:

sudo zypper update -t patch

[CODE]Refreshing service ‘nu_novell_com’.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Resolving package dependencies…

Problem: product:SUSE_SLES-11.2-1.513.x86_64 requires sles-release = 11.2-1.513, but this requirement cannot be provided
Solution 1: deinstallation of product:SUSE_SLES-11.2-1.513.x86_64
Solution 2: do not install patch:slessp2-SLES-SP3-Migration-8065.noarch
Solution 3: break product:SUSE_SLES-11.2-1.513.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c] (c): c[/CODE]

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Hi
I would select option 2 so it stays at SP2 and won’t move to SP3, looks
like you decided to update just after SP3 repos came alive :wink:

The other patch will remain and if/when migrating to SP3 then you would
use that patch.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
up 16:12, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.23, 0.17
CPU AMD E2-1800@1.70GHz | GPU Radeon HD 7340

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[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;14739]Hi
I would select option 2 so it stays at SP2 and won’t move to SP3, looks
like you decided to update just after SP3 repos came alive :wink:

The other patch will remain and if/when migrating to SP3 then you would
use that patch.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.16-desktop
up 16:12, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.23, 0.17
CPU AMD E2-1800@1.70GHz | GPU Radeon HD 7340[/QUOTE]

Hi Malcolm,

thank you very much for your advice! I will proceed as you suggested.
Do you know where I can find official update information on how to get from SP2 to SP3? I searched for it some days ago but couldn’t find any …

Best wishes
Jan

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jmk11 wrote:
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Do you know where I can find official update information on how to get
from SP2 to SP3? I searched for it some days ago but couldn’t find any
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Official SUSE documentation on updating SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
to SP3 is at
https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/book_sle_deployment/data/sec_update_sle11sp2.html

SUSE also have TID 7012368 on “How to upgrade to SLES/SLED 11 SP3” at
https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7012368

HTH.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner