Are non yast/zypper packages retained after online update to 15.5

In my system I have many custom compiled packages that were not installed through yast/zypper. Just “sudo make install”. I know OBS is best used for this but that did not happen.

After online update to 15.5, I am assuming that these packages will still be intact as they were. I understand some might not run due to changed dependencies installed with 15.5 and may need to be recompiled.

Is my assumption right? thanks, tom kosvic

@tckosvic since they won’t be present in the rpmdb and zypper won’t know about them, they will remain. Yes if the supporting libraries and development files update, then yes they would need recompiling… Add verbosity to the update with zypper -vvv ..... to glean more info on what is happening.

The main selling point of Leap is stability and compatibility - anything compiled under Leap 15.4 should most certainly continue to run through all subsequent 15.x updates. If not, this should be considered a bug.