Hello!
I want to do an online upgrade from LEAP 42.1 to Tumbleweed.
I did the steps in: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_upgrade
At the last step ‘zypper dup’ says that about 300 packages need to be downgraded.
Example:
Tumbleweed: alsa-oss-1.0.28-3.5
LEAP 42.1: alsa-oss-1.0.28-5.2
Is that normal? I thought that Tumbleweed is more recent than LEAP.
Hello, welcome,
The numbers after the “-” represent the package release number and are not relevant when comparing packages from different repositories. They describe the number of package rebuilds inside a given repository.
The relevant part here is the first one, the version number (1.0.28). For alsa-oss, there is no source difference – just compare this with this – but binary result may be different because the software used to build the package may be different. That’s why zypper dup forces the change to Tumbleweed packages.
Regards,
Antoine
Hello!
Thank you for the detailed answer.
I’m going to upgrade.