On 12/28/2016 05:48 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
- Is the dup default of allow-vendor-change really required for leap upgrade? Yes, in order to ensure you don't have cruft from additional repositories from earlier distribution releases hanging around when there are better upgrade targets available in the main repositories. no-allow-vendor-change is great at ensuring you keep getting your packages from the same sources you currently installed them from, but in the case of a distribution upgrade, that's the last thing you want.
I must admit I'm confused here. Regular readers will recall that I make use of the kernel_Stable repository. I'm running kernel 4.9.0. I also make use of a custom repository for various photographic tools including Darktable, which appears in the main repository. There I'm running 2.3. Similarly I have repositories set up for some more up to date tools that the notional 13.2 system I appear to be running. Again, regular readers will recall I had a problem with my XFS file system a while back. The xfs_repair in xfsprogs that came with the distribution wasn't a late enough version, after all, I'd been updating the kernel. See https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2016-08/msg00448.html. Well the key was getting xfs_repair (>= v4.3). That meant making use of http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/filesystems While filesystems has a tumbleweed branch, that's not so for other custom repositories I use. I'm sorry, but I don't consider making use of up-to-date builds 'cruft'. While 13.2 is coming to the end of its life soon, everything I've seen about the update into the 42 series seems fraught with minor hassles and issues that I don't have time to deal with. Threads like this seem to hint that an upgrade to tumbleweed will also be fraught with 'things that might go wrong'. This, and few other threads recently on the factory and main forums do make me wonder about the future of Suse. I've grown to like it and I'm not sure I'd be comfortable making a change to another system. Please don't even think I might move to ubuntu! -- "Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom". -- Merry Browne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org