Re: This is interesting.

On 2026-07-07 02:10, Bill Swisher wrote:
> On 7/3/26 8:46 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Same problem using update instead of patch?
> 
> Sorry for the delay, went out of town.
> 
> The command is:
> sudo zypper patch --allow-vendor-change --auto-agree-with-licenses -y
> 
> And 2 of 3 produced all that verbiage.
> 
> For 15.6:
> 
> sudo zypper clean
> sudo zypper refresh

This is not necessary. "clean" is only done in case of some problems. 
And "refresh" is automatic, unless you have disabled it.

> 
> then
> 
> sudo zypper patch --allow-vendor-change --auto-agree-with-licenses -y
> 

With patch there is no vendor change possible.

> Has produced this for several weeks:
> 
> All repositories have been cleaned up.
> Repository 'update-backports (15.6)' is up to date.
> Repository 'update-non-oss (15.6)' is up to date.
> Repository 'update-oss (15.6)' is up to date.
> Repository 'update-sle (15.6)' is up to date.
> Repository 'Update repository of openSUSE Backports' is up to date.
> Repository 'Update repository with updates from SUSE Linux Enterprise 
> 15' is up to date.
> Repository 'repo-non-free (15.6)' is up to date.
> Repository 'repo-non-oss (15.6)' is up to date.
> Repository 'repo-openh264 (15.6)' is up to date.
> Repository 'repo-oss (15.6)' is up to date.
> All repositories have been refreshed.
> Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'.
> Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.
> Loading repository data...
> Warning: Repository 'update-oss (15.6)' metadata expired since 
> 2026-06-17 02:34:19 AKDT.
> 
>     Warning: Repository metadata expired: Check if 'autorefresh' is 
> turned on (zypper lr), otherwise
>     manually refresh the repository (zypper ref). If this does not solve 
> the issue, it could be that
>     you are using a broken mirror or the server has actually 
> discontinued to support the repository.

This is expected as 15.6 is EOL. In fact, "patch" on 15.6 is futile. 
"up" may do something.


> 
> For 15.6 I'm still using whatever was in effect when I did the upgrade 
> back in prehistory.
> 
> 
> To answer your question, I just tried it with a "sudo zypper up" and it 
> ran fine. So, now I need to decide which to use...my bash scripts are 
> replicated across to all the computers (no matter the release) every 
> couple of hours. Personally I'm leaning towards the "update" right at 
> the moment.


-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.

   (from openSUSE 16.0 (Laicolasse))

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