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. 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.
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". 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. If you choose instead to use zypper for the upgrade (zypper dup....), you will need to edit all the repo URLs yourself.