I have updated with clean install from 13.1 to 13.2, seems good so far.
I’m puzzled by the changes to Yast, in particular checking for updates.
The system sent me a message about updates being available, so I fired up Yast.
In 13.1 I would wait for the repo refresh to complete and a line would appear showing updates found, I would select that line and it would show a list of the packages to update, confirm, do.
In 13.2 it seems I have to go digging for this information. Patches does not show the updates, however if I select the repos tab and go through each repo sorting the list of packages so that the blue updates float to the top it reveals the updates found for that repo. Then I can implement the update process. But this is a repo by repo process, not at all convenient.
This seems like a backward step from 13.1 where the process was a lot more automated. I’m sure I must be missing something here.
PS in previous updates I have had a list of many many updates to perform after installing the base stuff from the DVD, but in this case there were none to perform immediately. It could be that the 13.2 release was a lot more complete than say the 13.1, in which case good stuff.
That’s no change to 13.1 or earlier versions.
YaST->Online Updates only shows official patches from the update repo (there are none at the moment for 13.2), whereas the desktop’s update notifier shows updates from all configured repos.
Why don’t you use the update notifier to install the updates?
You can also select the “@System” repo in YaST’s “Repositories” view, that will show all installed packages, from all repos (and even those that are not available in any repo). Right-click on the list and choose “Update if newer version is available” to mark all available updates for installation.
PS: If you use something else than KDE, you might indeed see YaST changed. That’s because the GTK version is not installed by default any more, you’ll get YaST Qt even on GNOME. The GTK version has critical bugs and no maintainer, so it got removed from the patterns.
Thanks Wolfi, you are right - I am on Gnome, I have Qt now and must have had GTK before. The Qt layout does look familiar from previous versions of openSUSE I have used. The hint about @system is really helpful.
AFAIK the GTK version is in fact similar or nearly the same, just the software management part is quite different. I have it installed, but I don’t really use it.
Btw, if you prefer you can install the GTK version as well. It is still included, just not installed by default.
You’d need those packages: gnome-control-center-gnome, libyui-gtk6, libyui-gtk-pkg6
YaST should automatically use the GTK interface in GNOME then again.
If not, either use the “–gtk” switch or set WANTED_SHELL and WANTED_GUI to gtk in /etc/sysconfig/yast2.