man(8)

💅 man(8) — zypper-lifecycle, bestie edition 🎀

okay so real talk, this is the man(8) page for zypper-lifecycle, and it's genuinely that girl. she tells you when your products and packages are gonna lose support, so you're never caught out there with expired vibes. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

zypper-lifecycle — products and packages lifecycle information. literally just the whole "is this still supported or is it giving expired milk" situation, but for your software 🥛💀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zypper lifecycle [ -v | --verbose ] [--save <file>] [ --diff <file> ]
--days N | --date <date> | <package> ...

that's the whole shape of it. flags first, then you pick one of --days N, --date <date>, or just name some packages. slay ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she actually do? zypper-lifecycle shows an overview of products and packages lifecycle. that's it. that's the whole job. she's an icon, she's a legend, she tells you the lifecycle tea 💅

no cap, this is the kind of info you want before something quietly stops getting updates on you. main character energy is being prepared 🫶

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• --days N — shows you the packages/products whose support ends in N days (counting from now). it's giving "heads up bestie, the clock is ticking" ⏳
• --date YYYY-MM-DD — shows you the packages/products whose support ends before the date you typed. so like, everything expiring on or before that day. plan accordingly 🌈
• --save <file> — saves the report to a file in machine-readable form. and lowkey the best part? you can use that same file later with the --diff option. it's a whole little workflow, we love a save point 💾✨
• --diff <file> — reports only the differences from a previously saved report. so you're like "what changed since last time" and she just tells you. important though: this option can't be used together with explicit package names. not a vibe she does, sorry 🙈
• -v, --[no-]verbose — run verbosely. classic. she'll tell you more about what she's doing. --no-verbose does the opposite, because we support both sides of the coin 🪙

💡 note that --save and --diff are besties — one saves the machine-readable report, the other diffs against it. iconic duo fr fr 🫶

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

• 0 — success, we ate 🍽️
• 1 — some of the queried packets are not installed, or the report is empty 😭
• 2 — other errors 💀

so like, 1 is a soft "eh, kind of a nothing answer" and 2 is a for-real problem. iykyk 🌸

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• zypper(8) — the mothership 🚀

💜 BUGS 💜

No known bugs. she's flawless, we don't make the rules 👑✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik@suse.cz> — thank you for this gift, king 🫶

okay that's the whole page, you're now fully fluent in zypper-lifecycle 🌟 this was version 1.0, dated 18 Apr 2016, and she's still serving looks 💅✨ no cap, go check your lifecycle bestie 💖