Re: Re: [opensuse-project] Re: [security-announce] openSUSE Leap 42.1 has reached end of SUSE support

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Harald Koenig
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> On May 18, Michal Kubecek wrote:
>
>> ... but in general, Leap
>> 42.x and 42.(x+1) should be much closer to each other than e.g. 12.1 and
>> 12.2. Therefore users should fear upgrading to next point release less
>> and it should make much less sense to skip 42.2 and upgrade 42.1 systems
>> directly to 42.3.
>
> in general I understand and agree.
>
> BUT I still have some 42.1 systems running just fine, and esp. now
> with 42.x and 42.(x+1) being "much closer", it would be nice (for
> us lazy admins with "legacy" 42.1 systems;) to skip the effort of
> upgrading to an intermeadiate 42.2 just to reach 42.3 RSN...
>
> so either I have to ignore the 42.1 EOL and cross fingers while waiting for 42.3 being released,
> or there'll be 2 upgrades to be scheduled within short period (as I aim for 42.3 on all systems...)

Hi

As a general principal if an upgrade is an issue then the systems are
not engineered correctly.

You should be able to break something without risk.

It is more important to get used to change than expect a stable steady state.

Regards,
Chris


>
>
> just my 0.02 EUR ;-)
>
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