Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, After the stop of new snapshots after 0913 due to identified upgrade issues, I decided to revert the pieces that made it surface and caused the risk of installations breaking (glibc/libnls,libnss_nis and libnss_compat). The underlying YaST/libzypp/libsolv issue is not solved with this, but the risk level for your machine is […]
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Month: September 2017
Review of the weeks 2017/37 & 38
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Week 38 has been overcast by an identified issue in our update mechanisms. The issue is not new at all, but recent package changes made it surface and made would have made this bug visible on most users systems. So we held back all new snapshots since this issue became […]
Review of the week 2017/36
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, I’m positively surprised: I can report about 3 snapshots that were released last week (0830, 0831, 0904) – and a 4th one passed openQA (0905) but some heavy truck must block the cable: the sync is blocked; I’ll still include it in the review) I’m mainly astonished that there were […]
Review of the week 2017/35
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Uh-oh – that was a slow weel in Tumbleweed. Only a single snapshot (0825) has been sent out to the mirrors. Some more had been built and discarded. The reasons were pretty simple: with the introduction of the package dnf, that uses some of the new rpm boolean dependency operators […]