Comparing your local version with the on-line versions
Before upgrading a Tumbleweed system, it makes sense to check which is your local and which is the on-line version. This is actually a tad more complicated than it sounds.
There are three versions involved:
There is a mismatch between the last two as a side effect of decoupling the arm port a bit from the high checkin frequency of openSUSE:Factory; ARM simply has not enough power to build the snapshot in the same time Intel and PowerPC can do.
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He also tech-reviewed this post.
Your local release version
There are various ways to get your local version:
The easiest is to inspect the file /etc/os-release, for instance 20180208 in the file content:
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20180208 "
ID=opensuse ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20180208"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20180208"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
You can also perform rpm --query --provides openSUSE-release | grep "product(openSUSE)" which for the same install returned this product(openSUSE) = 20180208-0.
Finally, you can use zypper to query the installed product which also includes the version:
$ zypper search --installed-only --type product --details
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+----------+---------+------------+---------+------------------
i+ | openSUSE | product | 20180228-0 | aarch64 | (System Packages)
The on-line release version
I will explain this for the aarch64 architecture, but the mechanism holds for all architectures, it is just that the directory names vary.
Architectures and base directories you can use this mechanism with:
Each architecture contains the version number in two kinds of places:
- The content of the repository meta data in a file named
*-primary.xml.gz referenced from repomd.xml in the repodata subdirectory
- The filename of a package named
?P=openSUSE-release-2*
Back to the aarch64 architecture:
The on-line build version
I will explain this for the aarch64 architecture, but the mechanism holds for all architectures that build on openQA, it is just that the directory names vary and not all architectures are running on openQA.
Architectures and base directories you can use this mechanism with:
Architectures not on openQA:
Each platform contains the version number in two kinds of places:
- The content of the repository meta data in the file named
media.1/media and media.1/products
- Names used in the openQA links
Back to the aarch64 architecture on the ARM platform:
–jeroen
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