LWN: Comments on "A site for reviews of Tumbleweed snapshots" https://lwn.net/Articles/748362/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "A site for reviews of Tumbleweed snapshots". en-us Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:10:35 +0000 Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:10:35 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net A site for reviews of Tumbleweed snapshots https://lwn.net/Articles/748466/ https://lwn.net/Articles/748466/ jospoortvliet <div class="FormattedComment"> Depends how close you want to stick to the latest. If you run zypper dup on the main repo's a few times a week, like many (including myself) do, this is indeed useless, but that's also not the goal. It adds to the earlier announced snapshots thing - I suspect some people will stick with a snapshot for some time (say, a month) until they update again and at that point it makes sense, especially considering the zypper integration which essentially automates this.<br> <p> It will need some time to mature but it's certainly a clever thing.<br> </div> Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:04:32 +0000 A site for reviews of Tumbleweed snapshots https://lwn.net/Articles/748460/ https://lwn.net/Articles/748460/ nettings <div class="FormattedComment"> Ah that pesky causality :)<br> </div> Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:26:35 +0000 A site for reviews of Tumbleweed snapshots https://lwn.net/Articles/748390/ https://lwn.net/Articles/748390/ xorbe <div class="FormattedComment"> It doesn't seem too useful if 2-26 score is "pending" yet 2-27 is already on the mirrors, etc.<br> </div> Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:29 +0000