What is the reason for removing or disabling 3rd party repos during the upgrade?
The whole upgrade process is tested with the official repos. It is thus best to first do the real distribution update (several ways to do this) and then consider what is needed to do with the extra packages you have. Maybe you need to change a repo to a one that fits with your new openSUSE version and replace the old package (perhaps a zypper dup from that repo). Maybe the packages from that repo do not depend on openSUSE, thus nothing to do except making it active again. Maybe extra testing if a not official package still functions is to be done. All things one (at least I) do not want to have in one go.
You can of course take the risk and try to do it all in one go, but I would not take the risk to create a mess I can not disentangle.
Adding to the good advice by Henk, not all third party repos are created equal. Version numbering is generally different in those repos, so avoiding incompatible packages might not be straightforward.
Leaving the Packman (or better still the Packman-essentials) repo enabled during an upgrade is generally safe, even if we saw occasional incompatibilities in the past, but those usually affected only multimedia.
Leaving a KDE or Gnome third party repo enabled during an upgrade, for instance, is far more likely to cause headaches and a lot of wires to disentangle.
So, as often in Linux, it’s your system, your judgment and your choice…
The question instead is >> -----> do I really need these third-party repositories?
If the answer is yes
The right thing is to change the priority of third-party repositories, and it’s extremely easy using yast
Thanks, I was just curious as I did not do that when I did the upgrade.
So, for better or worse, I created a USB with the DVD version on it and am doing another ‘upgrade’ over the 1st upgrade, and disabling all 3rd party repos.
I was having some problems with apps being slow to load, a lot of crashes, and generally being unresponsive.
We’ll see it helps. Also a lot of ‘start job running for LVM2…’s’ during boot. Don’t know why, but they seem to have gone away after the ‘upgraded upgrade’.
it boots faster than it ever did now.