On 2023-07-23 13:59, gumb wrote:
I'm not sure if this is really the best place to bring this up, but it might get the eyes of a few openSUSE developers. I've noticed a problem with Leap upgrades, certainly for 15.5 and 15.4 but I'm not sure how far back it goes. I know it was never an issue I had in the past and I've been upgrading oS installs for nearly twenty years.
When using the Leap 'Upgrade' option via a USB stick or DVD, if I go into the Package Selection category of the installation overview (I've been obliged to do so with the last release because of one or two conflicts that needed resolving), I've discovered that there are a large number of packages that remain in the 'Keep' state with a black tick on an empty background. Hundreds or more. They are not marked for upgrade even though a version from the latest Leap release exists on either the upgrade media or the online repos. In some or maybe all cases the version number can be precisely the same, which may be the source of the problem.
It is quite possible that in Leap 15.x there are packages (coming from SLE 15) that are not updated since 15.0, and thus they "keep", they are not updated. Perfectly normal, not a problem. Different thing to the administrator locking a package to keep it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)