Post-upgrade repositories question

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When I performed the upgrade from 15.2 it appears that the additional SLE 15 repository introduced some inconsistencies to my previous configuration, possibly because I previously switched all system packages to “Packman” under 15.2. I’ve done that over various openSUSE/Leap versions without much issue. At any rate I eventually decided to run

zypper up

followed by

zypper dup

with the following repository hierarchy:

1 Packman Repository
2 Main Update Repository
3 Update Repository of openSUSE Backports
4 Update Repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 15
5 Update Repository (Non-OSS)
6 Main Repository
7 Non-OSS Repository

This seemed to get things back closer to normal. My question(s) is/are, is this a reasonable repository setup? These were all recommended in the community list.

I wasn’t sure about #3 and #4 since they are new. I have #1-5 set to auto-refresh, but not #6-7. I did have to regress Firefox back to ESR since I removed the 15.2 repository that enabled the newest version of Firefox. I can live with that until an updated Mozilla repo is available.

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Yes, that seems okay.

Stick to using “zypper up” for updating, at least for now. There are problems with “zypper patch”, with Yast Online Update and with the desktop applet, due to some conflicting patches that are intended only for SLE (or, at least, that’s what seems to be the problem).

3

Thanks for the quick confirmation. Glad to know it seems okay.

I saw your related reply to another user regarding the patch/desktop applet, and read through the link you provided. And I’ve experienced the patch issue as well. Thanks for the reminder on using “zypper up” for the time-being.