Hi, The lifetime is pretty much something the openSUSE project team decides, not so much the security team. (So better use the -project list ;) Currently Leap also aligns with the regular maintenance lifetimes of SLES service packs too, and 12-SP1 (which 42.1 contains to some degree) goes into extended maintenance May 30th. Ciao, Marcus On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 08:59:12AM +0200, Harald Koenig wrote:
On May 19, Carlos E. R. wrote:
so either I have to ignore the 42.1 EOL and cross fingers while waiting for 42.3 being released, or there'll be 2 upgrades to be scheduled within short period (as I aim for 42.3 on all systems...)
Theoretically the upgrade from 42.1 to 42.2 is trivial :-)
I have to say that it was the easiest I have done.
true. must of my systems do run 42.2
it's mostly about worktime, and downtime. one of my 42.1 servers just had an uptime of 420+ days before a long power outage last weekend. if this wouldn't have happend that server was planned to directly be upgraded and booted into 42.3 without any [upgrade] work or downtime before...
updates are always prepared and done on a 2nd system and boot partition to allow immeadiate fallback in case of trouble (and yes we had trouble e.g. with new grub and some server bios versions at boot time before...).
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