Tumbleweed: What are the pros and cons?

[swerdna]

@sobrus

I have one questiion about Tumbleweed. I could not find clear answer.

When OS12.1 comes out, do we have to upgrade it just like normal users?
Or just “zypper dup” as always, and ignore the fact 12.1 was released?

From what I’ve seen some packages, for example aaa_base, are version 12.1 already.

btw. about bandwidth, some users (including me) think that LibreOffice updates are too frequent, still the version is 3.3.3, so not a big (if any) difference for end user.
Banshee is next on this list, but it’s much smaller

I think I can give a clear answer.

Tumbleweed works on a few Tumbleweed repos and a few openSUSE repos. For example I have these repos:

john@tumbleweed114:~> zypper lr
# | Alias                            | Name                             | Enabled | Refresh
--+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+--------
1 | ChromiumTumbleweed               | ChromiumTumbleweed               | Yes     | Yes    
2 | PackmanTumbleweed                | PackmanTumbleweed                | Yes     | Yes    
3 | Tumbleweed                       | Tumbleweed                       | Yes     | Yes    
4 | Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Yes     | Yes    
5 | repo-non-oss                     | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss            | Yes     | Yes    
6 | repo-oss                         | openSUSE-11.4-Oss                | Yes     | Yes    
john@tumbleweed114:~> 

Notice the first three are Tumbleweed repos and the last three are openSUSE 11.4 repos. When 12.1 is released I will simply switch the last three (the 11.4 repos) over to the corresponding repos for 12.1 – simple. Every few days I run the command “zypper dup”. When I change the 11.4 repos to the 12.1 repos I will simply run that key command once again.
(in the absence of any other advice that might be issued by Greg K-H).

[sobrus]

Thank you (both of you ) for explanations.
It seems like it is just like I thought - no need to perform full offline update from DVD.