I get no updates to Tumbleweed

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#1

I ahd it installed for ~3weeks. As TW is a ‘bleeding edge’ distro i am surprised that no upgrades arrived.

I have the repo settings:

> zypper repos

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh

–±--------------------------±--------------------------±--------±-------
1 | MariaDB_repo_for_OpenSuSE | MariaDB repo for OpenSuSE | Yes | Yes
2 | packman-essentials | packman-essentials | Yes | Yes
3 | repo-debug | repo-debug | Yes | Yes
4 | repo-non-oss | repo-non-oss | Yes | Yes
5 | repo-oss | repo-oss | Yes | Yes
6 | repo-src-non-oss | repo-src-non-oss | No | Yes
7 | update | update | Yes | Yes

Am I missing somethng? Or is there a problem with Yast ‘Online Update’ GUI/applet in Tumbleweed? I notice that every time I start it, it complains that “no update source was configured” and I will have to click OK it the dialog that opens next.

#2

YaST->Online Update only installs updates from the update repo.
As Tumbleweed is a rolling distribution, you get updates via the main repo instead. (there is an update repo for critical security fixes in emergency cases, but that is empty at the moment)

Use “zypper dup” to keep your system up-to-date, that always was and still is the only supported way to update Tumbleweed.

You can also use YaST->Software Management or the desktop’s updater applet, but the first is rather manual, and the latter cannot cope well (or at all) with package renames/drops and downgrades as can happen in Factory/Tumbleweed.

PS, OOC: What do you need that MariaDB repo for? Shouldn’t the latest mariadb be included in Tumbleweed anyway?

#3

On 2015-01-10 15:16, jazcykel wrote:

> Am I missing somethng? Or is there a problem with Yast ‘Online Update’
> GUI/applet in Tumbleweed? I notice that every time I start it, it
> complains that “no update source was configured” and I will have to
> click OK it the dialog that opens next.

You are missing something: that there are no updates to TW. Not via YOU,
that is. Instead, you have to use, as documented, “zypper dup”.

If you have further questions, please request a moderator to move your
post to the tumbleweed forum.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

#4

hmm “suddo zypper up” found 179 packages. So the problem is with YaST “Online Upgrade” GUI applet, it seems

#5

Hello,

I think that you have the wrong repositories.

Have a look at openSUSE:Tumbleweed installation - openSUSE and look at repositories under upgrade.

On my system I have removed the old repositories and added the new ones as described in the referenced URL

Regards, Frans

#6

Actually that is totally unclear from the information posted so far.

The posted repo list only shows the repo names which could be anything.

Please post the output of “zypper lr -d” for clarification.

But as has been mentioned already, YaST->“Online Update” will not find any updates on Tumbleweed as there are no updates in the update repo.
That’s not how Tumbleweed works.

And to repeat again: you should use “zypper dup” to update your system, or at least call it from time to time.

PS: I requested this thread to be moved to the Tumbleweed forum…

#7

On 2015-01-10 15:36, jazcykel wrote:
>
> hmm “suddo zypper up” found 179 packages. So the problem is with YaST
> “Online Upgrade” GUI applet, it seems

There is no problem at all with it. It is working as intended.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

#8

Closing thread temporarily to move, nntp users hold off replies.

#9

Thread moved and opened for consumption.