Hi,
my tumbleweed system was installed less than a week ago.
I almost run “zypper dup” everyday, but today it wants to update 1343 packages and to download over a GB of files.
My system was almost a fresh install, I just added multimedia codecs (by following this guide) and then by installing pipelight (for my parents to see some videos online requiring this very annoying technology). After installing all this stuff I run already “zypper dup” a couple of times (yesterday).
Please shoud I worry about this massive update or all good in your opinion?
Just had the same update - which by the way hung at installing some. Had to close the package updater & restart it which then finished off the remaining packages in short order. All good now.
Imho for this kind of “massive” updates it would be nice to have a news entry or why not a stick/static thread to avoid annoying posts like mine
Cheers all for the quick response
It seems that over the past month, I’ve been receiving massive updates (512 MB to 1.5 GB on a 11 GB install) almost weekly. I haven’t subscribed to Tumbleweed for that long, either. Does Tumbleweed always behave like this or will it slow down some time?
I rarely update TW more than once weekly, and I have never seen an update less than slightly over 500MB (and often larger).
Seems to be the price for getting bleeding edge <every> package.
If these regular, large updates are too much for you, I’d recommend doing a system “upgrade” to LEAP. Then, your updates won’t be frequent bleeding edge, packages would need to be designated “stable” before you’d get them. If this is not your personal system, it’d also lessen the chance some faulty bleeding edge package(s) might break their system.
On Fri 29 Apr 2016 02:56:02 PM CDT, nrickert wrote:
GDixon;2776632 Wrote:
> 1840 updates and all were fine, chose zypper dup as always.
A mere 4460 changes here. Updating is still in progress here. They
seem to have recompiled all of texlive.
Hi
I got 1,707 (~0.9GB) and some are from my home repo…
The glibc update would have rebuilt everything…
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I had to abort with around 100 packages remaining to download.
There’s a package that it cannot find on packman. I guess I’ll wait a while and try again. (I already tried “zypper refresh --force packman” but that did not resolve the problem.
On Fri 29 Apr 2016 03:36:01 PM CDT, nrickert wrote:
nrickert;2776682 Wrote:
> A mere 4460 changes here. Updating is still in progress here. They
> seem to have recompiled all of texlive.
I had to abort with around 100 packages remaining to download.
There’s a package that it cannot find on packman. I guess I’ll wait a
while and try again. (I already tried “zypper refresh --force packman”
but that did not resolve the problem.
Hi
All updated, no issues seen… I use VideoLan
Packman doesn’t have much build power, takes awhile to get things
finished when there is a major update
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why are you guys confused about the huge updates in a rolling distro, if you want a slow changing system use LEAP,
ps I know a lot of LEAP updates are delta rpm’s does TW use delta rpm’s or full rpm’s, because an update that uses a delta rpm might show more data then it’s actually being downloaded, the delta’s are usually from the update repo and while it does have an update repo tw does not really use it.
Just never happened to be this big… but I confess to had been on tumbleweed boat for just a short time 