u/bmwiedemann

As every month, I started the monthly update to sync major version updates from Factory(TW). We will be on the 20260802 snapshot for the next month.

Factory had a major rebuild of 50% of it's `x86_64` packages for the gcc16 update and this will make it one of the larger updates. Expect some GB of downloads.

I'll edit this post later, when the update is done.

Edit2: worth noting again that the base snapshot had >50% of packages rebuilt (e.g. to drop python311 modules), so expect a larger zypper dup than usual.

Edit: as of 17:55 the main update is done and even Packman rebuilt the x86_64 parts. i586 still ongoing.

original message was I started the process to change the base Tumbleweed snapshot from 20260601 to 20260707.

As usual, I'll edit this post when it is done.

One small mishap already happened in that I accidentally deleted the magic "freezelink" file in openSUSE:Slowroll:Base:1 so projects such as Packman that link Slowroll sources to rebuild them, will point to the 20260709 versions now. I'll monitor if this causes extra breakage and compensate.

Tumbleweed snapshot 20260703 brings a lot of rebuilt packages as explained in https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/33YD224AVWDOBXG5UJWDZ6X6ZTCBWZ7N/

This makes me re-plan the July Slowroll update, where I planned to use 20260702 as a base. That would cause a larger diff right from the start.

I'll try to use 20260706 for Slowroll (if it passes openQA) and publish it this Friday.

I started the major version-update for June and will update this post when it completes in a few hours.

No new updates are released until then.