openSUSE Release Process » openSUSE Leap 15.3

Caution: potentially outdated instructions. Nowadays it's mostly only deleting the obsolete test updates. May need to verify release numbers nevertheless.

maintenance updates from the update project need to be merged back into the main repo

• use osc checkupdate (https://github.com/coolo/factory-auto/osc-plugin-checkupdate.py) to find updated packages

• copy them back using 'osc copypac -e openSUSE:13.2:Update openSUSE:13.2 -m "Update to match Update channel update#."'; On purpose do it by hand without automation to avoid screwups

• adjust the release number to be higher than in the update repo using FIXMEπ

• remove updates from the update repo by using "osc killupdate NUMBER"

[1] adjust the release number by checking the state of the package 'osc getbinaries openSUSE:13.2:Update . standard x86_64' and then writting higher revision to .spec file. To submit this update to repository just use 'osc ci --noservice -m "Add revision to ensure new-enough over Update channel."'

There should be a way to do this by means of obs