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Remove target information that was confusing customers. SP4 clarifications
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yarunachalam authored Oct 5, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ Upgrade is supported from SLES12 SP4 or SLES12 SP5 to SLES 15 SP1. It is
possible to configure other versions of SLES as the migration target,
but doing so is not a tested or supported use case.

Support for SLES12 SP4 will end December 31 2023. From 2024 onward
SLES12 SP5 is the only supported migration starting point.

== Upgrade Pre-Checks
The suse-migration-pre-checks package contains the `suse-migration-pre-checks`
script that checks for possible incompatibilities when doing a migration.
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manually. Once done, the upgrade process uses `zypper dup` and expects
all required repositories to be setup correctly.

Migration product target::
The default product target will be the 15-SP1 release corresponding to the
current product. The migration_product setting can be used to change the
product target.
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[NOTE]
Changing the product target from the 15-SP1 release is not officially
supported
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If migration_product is set, the migration will use that product as a target.
The product must be specified with the triplet name/version/arch found
in '/etc/products.d/baseproduct' of the target product, for example:
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[listing]
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migration_product: 'SLES/15.1/x86_64'
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would set the product target to SLES-15-SP1
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[NOTE]
The default target, if `migration_product` is not set, is the version
available in the migration path from zypper-migration.

Preserve System Data::
Preserve custom data file(s) e.g. udev rules from the system
to be migrated into the upgrade live system and make sure
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