How to upgrade slowroll with myrlyn

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on my laptop running slowroll with KDE I was looking how to update and looking at
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Slowroll
I read:
" Keep Slowroll upgraded
Like Tumbleweed, use zypper dup to upgrade."
so I suppose that to update slowroll with myrlyn I have to select
update tab and then
“dist upgrade”
and not
“package update”
is this correct??

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That is correct as the dup in zypper dupis short for dist-upgrade as you can find in man zypper.

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manythanks, what happen if I click on “package update” instead?

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That is of course a zypper up.

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yes, but does it can damage slowroll??

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I have no idea, I teached you about the translation between zypper and Myrlyn.

When they tell you to use zypper dup (or equivalent) then either you are a good boy and do what they told you. Or you are a more adventurous type and thus do otherwise as an experiment. You may report here what you found out.

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An occasional use of “zypper up” or the equivalent is not likely to cause serious damage. And the next “zypper dup” should fix any damage. Repeately use “up” in place of “dup” will allow the damage to accumulate, so don’t do that.

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There are two types of Slowroll updates.

  • There’s the monthly big base update which syncs with very recent stable Tumbleweed snapshot. Many packages are upgraded/updated, new packages may be installed and obsolete packages removed.
  • Then there are the more frequent (every 2-3 day) interim service package updates and security updates. These are smaller updates. Packages are either updated, upgraded or security patches installed. There are no major upgrades, packages are not removed or new packages installed. No major changes to the system. This is the calm period.

It is OK to use ‘zypper up’ for the interim updates. However, for the big monthly base update, you need to use ‘zypper dup’.

If you do not know when the major base update is available (only available through Slowroll subreddit), then make your life simple by always running ‘zypper dup’. It will cover all eventualities

The maintainer of slowroll runs both commands one after the other, i.e., ‘zypper up && zypper dup’. Apparently ‘zypper up’ is ‘slightly safer’ for the interim updates. Can’t recall why. I just take his capable advice.

It’s a LOT simpler to advise using zypper dup all the time, rather than more nuanced advice.

I’ve curated my own system, having removed Yast, among other apps so I created an alias that does the following:
zypper up --no-recommends
zypper dup --no-recommends
flatpak update -y

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