Upgrading OpenSUSE 15.0 to 15.1

Upgrading OpenSUSE 15.0 to 15.1

It's a little bit un-obvious how to do this. You have to edit the repo files to change the release version, then refresh + update.

sed -ri 's/15\.0/15.1/' /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo
zypper ref
zypper dup
reboot

Note this works on a transactional host too:

sed -ri 's/15\.0/15.1/' /etc/zypp/repos.d/*.repo
transactional-update dup
reboot

It would be nice if these was an upgrade tool that would attempt the upgrade and revert the repo files, or use temporary repo files for the upgrade though. It would be a bit nicer as a user experience than sed of the repo files.