Bug ID 990374
Summary linuxrc: comparision of buildid vs initrd id makes TW installers only valid for 24 hours
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version Current
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Major
Priority P5 - None
Component YaST2
Assignee yast2-maintainers@suse.de
Reporter dimstar@opensuse.org
QA Contact jsrain@suse.com
Found By ---
Blocker ---

There was apparently a nice bug well hidden in linuxrc, that was recently
fixed:

https://github.com/openSUSE/linuxrc/commit/b51ff997fee906777d4cde23ddbc0d3afd242df6

It has the very negative side effect on Tumbleweed though that any downloaded
NET installer is now only valid until the FTP tree is updated to a new
snapshot: something that makes Tumleweed Net installers very impracticable, as
the same disk can't be used for very long.

This was first observed and caught by openQA:
https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/227377#step/welcome/7: this test uses the
LATEST TW snapshot NET installer (to be tested, not yet published) and installs
the 'previous' (currently published TW snapshot).

This entire check feels like we need something more suitable for Tumbleweed,
ensuring to not make the NET installer incompatible every day with what is
published


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