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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. It was a bit less than tidy. Now it is not. I have not had any problems with miscreant patches for at least a week 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.
"...seems...." seems a bit equivocal! And that's the nub. I can only give you my impression of what I read, including the URL you
On 2021-07-20 9:16 p.m., Robin Klitscher wrote: posted above.
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?
In your initial post, you spoke of updating to 15.3. You did not mention that you have always upgraded by doing a fresh installation. If you had, my entire post would have been "Just go ahead and do it, 15.3 is rock solid afaiac" I gave all that detail so you would have some idea of what you would be seeing *IF* you choose to go the upgrade route rather than a fresh install.
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 every repository URL that you have installed yourself, just change the actual version number to $releasever. Then you will never have to worry about getting that right ever again. YaST and zypper are smart enough to figure out what to do with it. In fact, you can do this in the upgrade, if you choose to do an upgrade rather than a new install.
In addition I've also been in the habit of using the various available "leading edge" repos for KDE/qt etc such as
All of the repos you mention have the version number in them. If you do as above, and replace the version numbers in the URL with $releasever, you can do a version upgrade from a USB stick with no problem whatsoever, and you will likely not have any questions about vendor changes. That is how I upgraded from 15.2, and I kept the Packman repo. There were absolutely no problems then, and none after.
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.
All I have read suggests that SLE and Leap now share the same codebase. I have no idea if there is anything else included in SLE that we don't get to see with Leap. The people to answer that question are here, and and all of them are working at SUSE. All those extra repos you mention are from the openSUSE list of additional repositories. I cannot for one moment imagine they are not all tested and vetted before being released into the wild. There is nothing in my experience so far with Leap 15.3 to suggest you will have any difficulty if you upgrade your system now. Besides which, you only have until November, when 15.2 officially goes out of support.