ZYPP-BOOT-PLUGIN(8)

📦 version 0.0.11, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 ZYPP-BOOT-PLUGIN(8) 💅

okay so bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about zypp-boot-plugin — that's the zypp-boot-plugin manual page, section 8, and honestly? it's giving "tiny plugin, huge responsibility." let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

zypp-boot-plugin — a Libzypp plugin that figures out whether you need a reboot after a package installation/update. yes, that vibe check. 🔄

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this Zypp plugin gets called after every single package installation/update done by applications which use libzypp. every one. it's out here doing its little job in the background, no cap.

if needed, the plugin creates the file /run/reboot-needed — which is basically a sticky note for other applications going "hey bestie, a reboot is needed." 💌

there are different boot levels, and they get stored in /run/reboot-needed as a normal ASCII string:

  • reboot — hard reboot. the classic. no thoughts, just restart. 💀
  • kexec — booting a new kernel without initializing hardware and without using any bootloader like Grub2. lowkey iconic, skips the whole middleman situation. 🧚
  • soft-reboot — soft reboot, done by E.G. systemctl soft-reboot. gentle, polite, still a reboot. 🎀

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /usr/etc/zypp/zypp-boot-plugin.conf — the file which defines package lists for which a reboot is needed after installation/update. > ⚠️ do NOT touch this file, bestie — it will be overwritten by a new package installation/update. read-only energy fr fr. 😭
  • /etc/zypp/zypp-boot-plugin.conf — despite the file described above, this one can be edited by the admin and will NOT be overwritten while a package installation/update happens. and here's the tea: these file entries have the highest priority and replace ALL entries defined in /usr/etc/zypp/zypp-boot-plugin.conf. all of them. it's the main character of config files, honestly. 👑
  • /etc/zypp/zypp-boot-plugin.conf.d/* — allows individual entry changes which have been defined in the configuration files described above. have a look to https://opensuse.github.io/libeconf/ for more infmormation. (yes, that's how the original spells it — we keep the facts, we keep the spelling 💖)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Stefan Schubert <schubi@suse.com>. thank you for your service, king 🫡💜

okay that's the whole page, you ate that — no notes. this was zypp-boot-plugin version 0.0.11, dated 07/11/2024, and you can find it hanging out on the ZYPP-BOOT-PLUGIN(8) page. now go install something and let the plugin do its thing 💅✨

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