I quite like Discover’s tray notifications as an almost daily reminder to upgrade packages on my Tumbleweed installation.
However I typically end up using zypper dup on the terminal because I don’t necessarily trust Discover to upgrade packages correctly as a dist-upgrade as opposed to a normal update.
Can I just rely on Discover to keep my Tumbleweed updated? Or is it going to mess up my installation with incomplete upgrades?
As far as I know, “discover” is using “package-kit” to handle updates. And “package-kit” for Tumbleweed does a “zypper dup”.
It should normally be okay to rely on “discover”.
However, in case of conflicts, “discover” will probably just report an error. So in that case you should revert to “zypper dup” with its conflict resolution dialogue.
Personally, I use “zypper dup” on Tumbleweed, and “zypper patch --with-update” on Leap 15.6
Try Myrlyn.
I know Myrlyn can handle this well but it’s not providing notifications when updates are available. I like the convenience on just opening Disover’s notification and update directly from there.
Thanks! Can you point me to some relevant documentation where the link between Discover, package-kit and zypper is described?