Dear $LIST, I recently attempted to upgrade openSUSE 13.2 to openSUSE Tumbleweed using the procedure described at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_upgrade. That page defines "upgrade" as "moving from an older openSUSE release (eg. openSUSE 13.2 or Leap) to Tumbleweed" and describes two "supported upgrade mechanisms", including one called "online upgrade". This "online upgrade" mechanism involves replacing all the old Zypper repositories with Tumbleweed repositories and then running "zypper dup". When I ran into trouble with the "online upgrade" process, I filed a bug report and was chastised by a developer for using the "zypper dup" command instead of following the "upgrade workflow" [1]:
please notice that "zypper dup" for a distro upgrade may or may not work; that's why we provide the upgrade workflow
I asked what "upgrade workflow" he was referring to but received no response. Does anyone know what the official "upgrade workflow" is for updating older versions of openSUSE to Tumbleweed? If it's not already on the wiki, could I ask someone to please update the wiki page at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_upgrade with it? If it is already on the wiki, perhaps https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_upgrade could redirect to it. Regards, Tristan [1] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1025725#c3 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tristan Miller Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist https://logological.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-