On 12/16/19 10:57 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:48 PM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
The current system with Leap is that it is aligned to the enterprise version. This means that when they release version 16, openSUSE will do 16.0, and this is a major upgrade for the core. This happens every few years. Meanwhile there are minor upgrades, like 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, perhaps 15.4 or 16.0. Seems to be once a year. These minor upgrades seem to be easy and painless with zypper dup.
SUSE does not have "major" and "minor" upgrades. Every service pack is new version from technical point of view; there is no compatibility guarantees between service packs either. New major version is usually associated with product structure changes, not with amount of technical changes.
This is not strictly true, New SUSE major versions SLE-12/15/16 etc are branched from tumbleweed and the whole distro is new, on the other hand service packs are built on the previous SLE releases and there generally needs to be a good reason for us to update any package in a service pack, i'd also be surprised if you see many updates that would require changes to config in service packs there may be the odd occasion but its not common, where as for new major versions anything could happen. So from a technical point of view the way "Major" and "Minor" SLE releases are created are completely different, "Minor" Leap versions are different again because for anything that's not shared with SLE its up to the maintainer on whether they get updated. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B