Identify kernel upgrade

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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

Hi there!

I found a very interesting article written by Swerdna (https://forums.opensuse.org/content/48-howto-backup-restore-tumbleweed-root-system-partition-quickly-simply.html) about root backup for TW users. One of his main points is that a kernel upgrade might be a risk and therefore he always makes a backup of the root partition. Sounds plausible.

As my TW experience is less than a week old I haven’t had a kernel upgrade yet and there was no need to backup the root partition. But how can I know before the upgrade (zypper -dup) if there is a kernel upgrade?

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zypper dup

itself will not be executed until you say y/n
If you scroll up the terminal you can see the proposed changes.

N.B: I suggest you have your terminal profile for scrolling set to unlimited so you can scroll back as far as you need.

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For a trial run:

zypper dup -D

is the safest way.

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OK, thanks a lot.