Re: What is "Migration-Toool" for?

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 4:20=E2=80=AFPM Daniel Bauer via openSUSE Users
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Soon I will have to change my main computer from OS 15.6 to 16.0. I'm
> asking because I am not completely sure if I missed something and want
> to do it right with the machine that's most important for my daily work.
>
> There is a "migration tool" but I read of a lot of problems with it.
>
> So I just updatet a fully (except /boot) encrypted Laptop directly from
> 15.5 (not 15.6) to 16.0 the easy "classic" way:
> - deactivated packman and deleted all other repos except repo-oss and
> repo-non-oss.
> - as root: zypper --releasever=3D16.0 ref
> - as root: zypper --releasever=3D16.0 dup
> There were like 50 "problems" which I solved using one of the offered
> options (mostly No. 1)
> after the download and install:
> - activated packman repo
> - as root: zypper dup --from packman --allow-vendor-change
> - added Mozilla and Showimage repo, for latest firefox and the very
> useful showimage app, and installed the desired
>
> This all went smoothless and as much as I can see it just works.
>
> Now that was so easy and without any problems that I wonder what the
> migrations tool could be good for. As it obviously exists I wonder if I
> missed something with my update that I will find out only later and
> would be important when I update my main PC? Or was my simple way just
> the way I should also go with my main computer?
>

Besides adjusting the repositories migration tool runs a couple of one
page scripts. Just check what these scripts do to decide whether it is
something you missed.