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

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Fri, 19 May 2017 00:25:37 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.security
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On 2017-05-18 20:29, Harald Koenig wrote:
> 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...)

Theoretically the upgrade from 42.1 to 42.2 is trivial :-)

I have to say that it was the easiest I have done.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.

  (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))

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