-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2017-12-02 at 22:32 +0100, Oliver Kurz wrote:
On Friday, 1 December 2017 22:19:36 CET David C. Rankin wrote:
On 11/30/2017 03:31 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
In around 2 months, at the end of January 2018, the SUSE support of openSUSE Leap 42.2 will end.
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Since 15 does not look like it will be ready by end of life for 42.2, why not take the logical step of extending 42.2 until 15 is ready? The migration to 42.3 with over 1/2 its usable lifetime expired makes little since. In the past when circumstances such as this arose, there were accommodations made to insure there wasn't a forced update to a version that would expire within 12 months. This is another good opportunity to do so. […]
The upgrade from 42.2 to 42.3 should be very easy. Just replace all occurences of 42.2 to 42.3 in /etc/zypp/repos.d/*, make sure you have enough space available for the upgrade and call `zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change` or something along those lines.
"should be" is the key word ;-) I agree with you, it should be easy. I have been upgrading my machines since 5.3, and certainly Leap is easy to upgrade, at least wtihin the minor numbers. I use the offline method, though. However, the procedure can barf. Break. There is some danger, and it needs some time preparing, like making a full backup just in case, have some time for the machine being offline or not usable while adjusting things after the upgrade (review all the rpmold/rpmnew config files). Some people had bad experiences, so they try to do the minimal upgrades. Some people jump over some versions for whatever reasons and wait for the next instead. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlokAr8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XZSwCgl0N/aa/XSatzKimuirfJ9GSZ J58AnAu+twRyAlaNIx+9p0T69a3miWnv =HaqM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----