В Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:29:33 -0500
Felix Miata
If you don't want what will before long become a mongrel, only ever do dup on TW, as the currently installed packages will in the not very distant future no longer be available on any repos.
I do not see any connection between the two parts of this sentence, sorry. Yes, currently installed packages will be replaced by newer versions of the same packages and "up" will update them. Where is the problem? The primary reason for "dup" to exist is to allow vendor change, because every new openSUSE release has new "vendor". There is no vendor change in current TW, so this does not apply. Second consideration is that there is no strict release ordering between different repositories in OBS, packages in new openSUSE release may appear "older" than packages that are currently installed. "Dup" tells to replace everything that is installed with packages from configured repositories without comparing versions. Again, as today TW is expected to be monotonically increasing this does not really apply. So I really wonder what is the reason to use dup beyond "because we have been using it forever"? Can you give more technical explanation than "mongrel"? Can you provide example where "up" fails and "dup" not on current TW? Of course for the very first switch from openSUSE to TW you would need "dup", not "up". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org