How many times have you upgraded?

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So, I was curious as to how many times I had upgraded an image on my Aurora laptop since installation. My laptop is pretty new, so only 22 since August (seems about right).

What about you? I’d expect the dev team to win, but it would be interesting to see what kind of numbers everybody has.

journalctl -u rpm-ostreed --since "$(stat -c %w /var)" --grep="Created new deployment" -o cat | wc -l

Hmm…that command worked on my laptop but not on my other system (got zero). if anybody has a better idea to get that info…

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I have 31 new deployments in the last 5 months (default config for journal retention on bluefin). First one of my 31 is dated Jul 20 (2025 implied).

Keep in mind that layering pkgs, changing kargs, etc. also create new deployments.

Thanks for sharing another of your experiments!

I chased down where the journal retention was configured a while back. I thought it was 6 months. But the data suggests 5 months.

To be fair, it wasn’t until you shared your thoughts about how rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer could be improved that I was consistently getting automated updates.

FYI, it looks like your OnCalendar= suggestion has moved to uupd.timer now …

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Yeah, it happened about a month ago on the timer. Seems to work pretty well! Hmm. I didn’t know that layering created a new deployment. I hadn’t done ‘rpm-ostree install’ in so long because I build my own image or hadn’t needed it.