How to check for updates online in browser without Yast/Zypper?

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Hi all,

Is there a way to check for, and review all updates/patches for a certain distro, lets say Leap 42.3, preferably in a browser?

For example, I’m using Leap 42.2 and with Yast I can check all new & installed updates with their info.

I would like to do something similar for 42.3 without actually installing it.

Is there an easy way?

Thanks

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Sure, you could point to the online repository which is just an HTTP-based
environment, and read through the metadata, or packages, or whatever,
yourself.

To find a system’s repositories, ask it:


zypper lr -u

The output will have the URLs used by zypper.

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Thanks but I know the urls and I know that it is http based.
The question is, how can I see all patches in one list and when I click on a patch, I want to see which bug they solved.
Just like in Yast. Thing is, I want to do that for a system that I’m not running.

I don’t want to see a list of rpm’s because that doesn’t tell me which bug they fixed.

In other words, how can I quickly see which bugs have been fixed for Leap 42.3 without having 42.3 installed?

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No, there isn’t. And not going to be, unless someone’s going to build that. Which, IMHO, is a very complex thing.

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Thanks. So far, the only way (I think) is the following:

Download the file http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.3/oss/repodata/*-other.xml.gz

Extract the file and open it with Firefox.

Search for the string “package pkgid” and use F3 to go through the list of updates.