Let me review the symlink situation and meaning, I would say that this falls to my responsibilities. Lubos On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 20:58 +0200, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
Am Freitag, 21. April 2023, 15:04:36 CEST schrieb Erik Skultety:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 08:56:16AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
For what it's worth, I think your request is pretty reasonable. We do support upgrading across minor versions, but nobody has asked for this before that I recall.
Could you please send a request to admin@opensuse.org outlining your specific needs and what benefit it would have for you? The Heroes team[1] can then look into enabling this.
Sweet. Thank you Neal, appreciated. I will send the request and let's see what the outcome is :).
Sorry to send you to yet another place, but...
I'm afraid the heroes will tell you that we make sure the server runs, but don't manage the "current" symlinks ourself ;-) [1]
These symlinks are updated by the release manager. For example,the task for 15.5 is at https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/114295 This also means you better ask the release manager ;-) (now in CC) [If you send a request to admin@, it's not a completely lost case - we can assign it to Lubos.]
So far, we "only" have the "current" symlinks that point to the latest release, and change them even if the major version changes. IIRC you are the first who asks for a $major symlink. That would be a bit additional work, but sounds doable.
An interesting question is: what should happen with the symlinks if a major version is EOL. When the last 15.x release goes EOL, what should we do with the "15" symlink? Keep it pointing to the EOL release? Delete it? Something else?
Regards,
Christian Boltz
[1] Exceptions might apply. For example if the release manager forgets to update one of the "current" symlinks, the heroes could fix it.