Upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1 successful so far, but followed by HUGE upgrades?

English Install/Boot/Login
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I guess my upgrade was ok, everything seems to work, but I was kinda surprised by a list of upgrades waiting amounting to nearly 50% the size of the 13.1 ISO, i.e. 1.8 GB after a download of 4.6 GB. Makes me wonder if perhaps I did something wrong? Good job my connection is very slightly faster than dialup…! It will probably take me 2 days on and off to get them all.

Edit: probably my fault, I see that it is getting my texlive fonts all over again, so that probably accounts for a lot of the size.

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On 2013-11-20 15:16, colbec wrote:
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> I guess my upgrade was ok,

Real upgrade, or fresh install?
If upgrade, was it online (zypper dup) or offline (DVD)?

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Downloaded .iso, burned DVD, real upgrade, not a fresh install.

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Same thing here, I really thought something had gone wrong and it was downgrading again or some other crazy thing. I am still not sure it was done properly.

Matter of fact my kinfocenter reports.

openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)

Is that correct. What does yours say?

Just to put this in perspective, the OS spent 3 hours on downloads yesterday after supposedly upgrading from DVD. I am downloading @ 30 mbs from comcast.

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Known problem the Grub entry string are not getting updated. You can manually change from Yast

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On 2013-11-20 15:56, colbec wrote:

> Downloaded .iso, burned DVD, real upgrade, not a fresh install.

Then yes, there is a huge update to do afterwards. The DVD can not hold
all the files needed, so you need to upgrade the rest online.

The procedure is, without enabling any extra repo (important, or dup
will be unclean):


zypper up
zypper dup
zypper patch

then verify:


rpm -q -a --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME}	%{INSTALLTIME:day} \
%{BUILDTIME:day} %-30{NAME}	%15{VERSION}-%-7{RELEASE}	%{arch} \
%25{VENDOR}%25{PACKAGER} == %{DISTRIBUTION} %{DISTTAG}
" \
| sort | cut --fields="2-" | tee rpmlist \
| egrep -v "openSUSE.12\.3" | less -S

there should not be any 12.3 packages. There may be other packages from
other repos having a different name scheme, so again run:


rpm -q -a --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME}	%{INSTALLTIME:day} \
%{BUILDTIME:day} %-30{NAME}	%15{VERSION}-%-7{RELEASE}	%{arch} \
%25{VENDOR}%25{PACKAGER} == %{DISTRIBUTION} %{DISTTAG}
" \
| sort | cut --fields="2-" | tee rpmlist \
| less -S

and look at the files at the top of list visually. At this point you can
start adding repos like packman.

Please read:

Offline upgrade
method

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)