All, We keep reading about bugzillas that are ignored etc. I was astounded to see one of my bugzillas was tagged "SHIP_STOPPER" this morning. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529525 It relates to zypper dup just blindly using the configured repositories and not ensuring the repositories are set appropriately to do a "distribution upgrade". The last Novel comment was from Stephen Kulow: == not to read any howto how to update distributions? Very possible, but not exactly a bug ;( == To which I replied: == I guess I am of the minority and asinine opinion that a tool that accepts the argument --distribution-upgrade should actually do a distribution upgrade. Maybe the option should be renamed to "--distribution-upgrade-final-step" with shortform -dup_f. Even better I think --distribution-upgrade should accept an argument that defines the target distribution being upgraded to and performs the necessary repository management. After all, zypper is the main CLI tool for repository management, so that is not outside the scope of what a normal user might expect. Clearly anyone considering zypper -dup has Internet access, so it could be updated as needed to work with the new repositories at each distro release. == I must say, I expected the bugzilla to be closed as not a bug, etc. Instead, Stephen promoted this to "SHIP_STOPPER" this morning. Call me shocked! Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org