Will it update with ‘zypper dup’?
Practice Is the Criterion of Truth.
Have you done zypper dup on it after June 7, and after the backport and SLE repos were in place and enabled? If yes, you’ve done all the zypper dups you normally should do until either you want to upgrade it to 15.5, or you wish to add an optional repo to switch some packages to. It’s time for doing your updates only with zypper up once you’ve fully upgraded to 15.4.
Should I remove the locks on language files before the cup upgrade?
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should I disable repos that are not opensuse or sle?
Hi
I didn’t remove any *-lang locks, See SDB:System upgrade - openSUSE Wiki
Two servers and my laptop upgraded without any issues, but only have a few extra repos and updated those bits later.
If you currently have no -lang files installed, no, but you may find you need to force install a select few that object to upgrade absent their -lang file(s).
should I disable repos that are not opensuse or sle?
On opensuse-guide and Packman, no. The rest might depend on what they are about. Based upon their history and nature, I don’t on TDE or FCL, which are usually my only others.
Thanks,
i usually have pack an, some lib….(what ever), chrome, brave browser, and Mathe office package I want.
I will unlock the -lang just to be on the safe side.
There is probably a more elegant way to ‘dup’, but I used this link to upgrade https://gist.github.com/oleksis/8cb48edd682c8adf818da2d097ae2979
word of caution, there are a couple of ‘-y’ at the end of some of the CLI commands. I advise leave them out, and make the ‘types,no,ignore….’ selections yourself.
This article doesn’t add 15.4 to non enabled opensuse repos. I don’t know why?
my biggest complaint is the upgrade adds back in some dross I removed, and IMO that is just wrong!
PS, I disabled repos that were not opensuse repos.Hopefully they are still there.
Hi
Woooo there, why did you not follow the official openSUSE documentation (link provided in this thread) on the upgrade process?
If you remove the package locks, then you will get the dross 
You can always add the dry run option and pipe the file list to a file for review before proceeding…
Honestly, I didn’t see that link. I was searching the web when it was posted, and to be blunt, the opensuse documents are very wordy, to the point of confusion(to me anyway).
Now that I can find it in your post above, I will use it for the other 3 machines I have to upgrade.
But I must admit, the link I posted did the task very well.
Also, On the other machines, I won’t remove the -lang locks.
Thanks for the tips and your responses.
Hi
Also add -vvv in there and will see more info.
where to add ‘-vvv’ ?
otherwise, link you pointed to is working as advertised(so far).
I tried to upgrade 1st with a USB stick set up using Suse’s writer, but it left a mess on one drive(USB May have been corrupted).
next time I will use the ‘dd’ command to write the USB stick.
# **man zypper**
ZYPPER(8) ZYPPER ZYPPER(8)
NAME
zypper - Command-line interface to ZYpp system management library (libzypp)
SYNOPSIS
zypper --global-opts]...
-vvv amounts to a global option.