The magic of the Tumbleweed model for an end user

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I have a combination media server/family gaming PC, hadn’t been updated in a few days. Went to run a zypper dup before changing out the laundry, saw it was going to deliver ~530 packages, including:

  • Kernel 6.8
  • Nvidia 550.67
  • GNOME 46

all at once. So I started it, put some clothes in the dryer, folded some towels, and came back to a machine ready to reboot, and ready to jump back into the game (LEGO Star Wars, currently, my son’s favorite). No secure boot issues, no graphical glitches, all good.

My simple brain can only comprehend about 1% of the infrastructure that goes into coordinating all of those activities - pulling from upstream, weaving together, and testing - so that, for a user, it’s zypper dup and move on with your life. Worth stopping for a moment to appreciate those who make it happen.

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It’s pretty amazing when you think about it! :exploding_head:

To date, I have only encountered minor bugs that lacked coverage in openQA.

I plan to learn more about it when I have the time and improve coverage for some of the things I depend on. Perhaps write a HowTo so others can do the same! :wink:

But I did encounter one major bug with btrfs quota/qgroup that could be classified as a “time series bug”, only reproducible over an extended period of time. Wondering if anyone here knows if openQA has support for long term testing, I think not due to resource constraints.

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Performed quarterly upgrade from 20231228 to 20240319:

  1. zypper install rpm.
  2. zypper install transactional-update
  3. systemctl start transactional-update.service
~ # journalctl -b -1 -u transactional-update.service -g following -o cat
The following 3034 packages are going to be upgraded:
The following 33 patterns are going to be upgraded:
The following product is going to be upgraded:
The following 3 packages are going to change architecture:
The following 575 NEW packages are going to be installed:
The following 252 packages are going to be REMOVED:
The following package requires a system reboot:
The following package is going to be REMOVED:

The machine readily booted into the new snapshot:

2738  | single |Thu Mar 21 16:36:50 2024 | root | number  | Snapshot Update of #2733

Kudos to the developers!

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