Today YaST Software Management notified me that 2717 packages are tagged for update. Is that serious? Is that risky? Or is it a genuine tribute to the diligence of the terrific OpenSUSE Team?
Yes, it is.
Do you have a technical question? Otherwise it belongs to the Open Chat.
Thanks! Great work!
PS: Haven’t discovered Open Chat yet ---- 
Well I have a technical question , got a lot of temporary unavailable messages for the Tumbleweed repo , in the end everything got updated but it took a very long time to do so. Is there a known problem ?
…and otherwise, my question about seriousness and risk, if vague, are technical, trying to raise a flag if catastrophe looms.
Maybe study the home page of these forums? It is the last category under “English”.
Yes, I saw it too. It happens every now and then, may be due to large download size the mirrors are overloaded now. There is usually nothing we can do on our side and you can only try a different mirror. But most likely it will fix itself in a couple of hours or days.
I got them this morning on two (out of three) systems (and they were temporary) for a Leap 15.6 Update. Thus it seems that some system has problems answering all requests.
Ok that makes sense , thank you.
What is “technical” about it?
If you are using Tumbleweed you are advised to follow Factory mailing list, at least regular announcements there. Like Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2025/10 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists which says
Python 3.13 as primary python interpreter. /usr/bin/python3 will be
switched to version 3.13. This will require a rather large Tumbleweed
rebuild to ensure the python3-* symbols move to the correct packages.
I kept getting loot of those & kept entering r which worked. But when I got distracted and let it do it’ stuff if ended up aborting. Hopefully it won’t have made any changes and broken my system. Guess I should try again later when it might be less busy?
As I understand it, this was only aborted during the download stage, so no changes will have yet been made to your system.
By the way, I’m getting a lot of “temporarily unaccessible” too 
Hi,
in my case it’s not only updates/new 2700 packages, it’s 4194 packages (including 180 new python packages) 
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Here, the download also stopped (after 554 packages). I have restarted zypper dup (the old files are in the cache). It goes forward stepwise.
Update: the “monster package update” worked fine.
After downloading all packages there were conflicts with 6 packages but this could be directly “fixed” by zypper.
I am used to updates of not more than about 100 packages at most. so I wondered if an update of more than 2700 packages was an error, Obviously not. Many thanks.
In the meantime, I have completed the update successfully in spite of the frequent download interruptions All’s well.
Like said before: DO NOT USE YAST FOR UPDATING TUMBLEWEED
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Why not and what then?
Please read the docs, YaST cannot do a distro upgrade, where TW basically is one with each snapshot. So, only zypper dup is supported.
For some this may be a step backwards. I’m beginning to think I shot myself in the foot by migrating to TW from Leap. But isn’t Leap being discontinued this year?
I have no idea where you get this nonsense. Next time please show some source (URL). Leap 16 is happening in Alpha stage already and will be released this year