Re: What are these new kernel extra and optional being installed?

On Di, 2021-06-15 at 14:38 -0500, Larry Rainey wrote:

Every machine that was like that - I had to boot to run level 3 and zypper in kernel-default-optional kernel-default-extra as they did not get updated via zypper up

If you update to a new Leap version (e.g. 15.2 -> 15.3), you need to use "zypper dup". That's well documented. Even then, the -extra and  -optional packages will only be installed if you install recommended packages (which is the default). Regards Martin