Safe to upgrade TW with a 2 month+ gap since the last update?
Hi, I'm going to be in hospital for about 2 months and won't be able to use my laptop during that time. Is it safe for me to upgrade TW with a 2 month gap of no updates or should I just reformat and install the newest version from scratch? Thanks. Simon.
Am Freitag, 3. September 2021, 15:06:03 CEST schrieb Simon Connah:
Hi,
I'm going to be in hospital for about 2 months and won't be able to use my laptop during that time. Is it safe for me to upgrade TW with a 2 month gap of no updates or should I just reformat and install the newest version from scratch?
you could install tumbleweed-cli and do the init - then you'd be able to step forward one snapshot after the other once you're back. Cheers MH -- Mathias Homann Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org OBS: lemmy04 Jabber (XMPP): lemmy@tuxonline.tech IRC: [Lemmy] on freenode and ircnet (bouncer active) telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98 keybase: https://keybase.io/lemmy gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102
On 2021/09/03 06:06, Simon Connah wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to be in hospital for about 2 months and won't be able to use my laptop during that time. Is it safe for me to upgrade TW with a 2 month gap of no updates or should I just reformat and install the newest version from scratch?
Major condolences! It doesn't seem likely that such a stay is likely to be "fun". Best wishes & best of luck. Maybe rent a laptop for a few months? That's a long time to be offline (at least I'd be concerned about withdrawal! ;-) ). As for package upgrading... not sure but it seems like you are having to make a double saving throw!... If you have your personal stuff backed-up, you'll start w/a clean system if you reinst. It really depends on how much customization you've done. Safest would be to uninstall as many packages as you can that you don't use and then try to uninstall packages that were only dependent on those packages you uninstalled due to disuse. Give that an upgrade try when you get back. If it looks too troublesome, go for the reinst. In the scary + unlikely department, you could come back and find you can only install packages from the Win^W"Open"SUSE App store... Or find dropped support for any TW version older than 2021-07-01 while also finding no one can install the new stuff unless all of their HW supports the full "Palladium" spec (yet to be finalized, but don't let that worry ya... :-)) What could go wrong? Best of luck...
Simon Connah composed on 2021-09-03 13:06 (UTC):
I'm going to be in hospital for about 2 months and won't be able to use my laptop during that time. Is it safe for me to upgrade TW with a 2 month gap of no updates or should I just reformat and install the newest version from scratch?
I have more than two dozen TW installations, and routinely go 2-3 months between zypper dups on some of them, not infrequently 4. These gaps have rarely posed any problem. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
Am 03.09.21 um 15:06 schrieb Simon Connah:
Hi,
I'm going to be in hospital for about 2 months and won't be able to use my laptop during that time. Is it safe for me to upgrade TW with a 2 month gap of no updates or should I just reformat and install the newest version from scratch?
Thanks.
Simon.
I update my tumbleweed installations also with gaps of sometimes up to 6 month. (all are production systems) updates will be done if important security problems are, and/or if i find time) "normally" no problem with this. - of course you have to do the rpmconigcheck and adjust all the changes. on the other side, a fresh install may have some different standards which will not be changed if you "only" update. simoN -- www.becherer.de
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