On 21/07/2021 11:22, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2021-07-20 4:56 p.m., Robin Klitscher wrote:
I've read the following announcement through multiple times:
https://news.opensuse.org/2021/07/19/leap-gains-maintenance-update-improveme...
but, being a bear of very little brain, I've failed to understand it.
What does it mean?
You are aware, of course, that Leap 15.3 and SLE are basically in lock-step now.
Indeed I am. But conversations in these lists and in other forums seem to suggest that the lock may be a little less than tidy. Hence the confusion. There are now 2 new update repositories to deal with
this. Previously, the updates from SLE were being imported into separate repositories for 15.3, and it wasn't working. Now, it seems both are using the same ones.
"...seems...." seems a bit equivocal! And that's the nub.
More specifically, what do I have to do to set up the repositories for keeping Leap 15.3 properly updated (when I get around to installing it, that is)?
If you download the ISO image and write it to a USB stick, you won't have to do anything except click a few radio buttons. Grab the network install image, and when you boot to it, choose "update" instead of "new installation".
I downloaded it for USB stick some time ago but, out of caution, have yet to do anything with it. For many years now I've installed successive opensuse (latterly Leap) versions clean, desktop KDE / Plasma, as new installations, never as updates or upgrades of existing. Does this mean I should change the habit of more than 20 years?
During the update process, you will be asked to confirm if you want to keep or delete all your previous repositories -- the default is to delete them. You can let the update process remove/replace all the openSUSE repos, but may wish to keep others you've installed, such as Packman. If you keep any, you will need to edit them to make sure the URLs reflect the version upgrade.
Invariably post-installation, I've also switched to the Packman repos, preferring yast and the GUI over zypper and the commandline. But I haven't been sure in the case of 15.3/SLE of the utility of continuing to do that. In addition I've also been in the habit of using the various available "leading edge" repos for KDE/qt etc such as ../KDE:/Extra/KDE_Applications_openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ (and others Mozilla; LibreOffice and so on). Of course I'm aware of the implications of doing this, but I have to say that across the 20 years I've never struck a show-stopping problem with the approach. Such stumbles that have occurred have been temporary and quickly resolved, not least with the help of the good folk of these mailing lists. But I'm unsure how this scenario would work out with 15.3 and compatibilities across necessary SLE resources as well as the familiar opensuse ones. So I'm holding off doing anything about 15.3 at the moment ......
If you choose instead to use zypper for the upgrade (zypper dup....), you will need to edit all the repo URLs yourself.
-- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand