On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Christopher Myers <cmyers@millikin.edu> wrote:
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On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 17:19 +0100, Richard Brown wrote:
On 15 November 2017 at 17:02, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
Op woensdag 15 november 2017 16:18:12 CET schreef Christopher Myers:
I've been using Tumbleweed for several months now, and love it. One thing that I've been curious about though is -- let's say that I'm on 20171107, and the most recent is 20171114, but there was a release on 20171110. Is it possible to upgrade from 1107 to 1110, when 1114 is the most recent? I guess a way to be cutting edge without being totally bleeding edge?
Chris
No, not AFAIK. The packages are in the TW distro repos, which are updated over and over again. No static situation. About the edges: since the appearance of openqa none of the edges could be called bleeding :D
Indeed - in fact there are multiple ways of thinking about it
Option A) is the pessimistic "All snapshots are equally risky" theory. This philosophy suggests that there is just as much chance that yesterdays Tumbleweed snapshot will be broken as todays
or
Option B) the "we are doing a good job fixing things" theory. This suggests there is more chance that yesterdays Tumbleweed snapshot was more broken than todays.
Either way justifies Tumbleweed's current "we only need one snapshot in the repos" approach and runs counter to the suggestion that somehow choosing some older snapshot is possibly going to be more 'stable'
Old snapshots are old, not more stable, nor more reliable, nor more secure (we don't patch old snapshots)
Cool, makes sense :) So far I haven't had too many troubles, but since this is my work laptop, I'd kind of hoped to be able to hold off updates for a few days just to be safe if possible. But since it's not, oh well, that's part of the learning experience :)
In theory it would be simple to add a new zypper command to support: # zypper dup --download-only (this works today) watch mailing list for 2 days, no problems seen # zypper dup --cache-only ======= I don't run Tumbleweed in production, so I won't be the implementer. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org