Zypper Automatic

Automatically install and notify of updates in openSUSE.

About

The benefits this has over yast2-online-update-configuration is the integration with systemd services/timers and email notifications similar to what's provided in dnf-automatic or unattended-upgrades.

Builds

Builds are available on OBS at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:losuler/zypper-automatic.

This repo can be added on supported systems by:

# openSUSE Tumbleweed
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:losuler/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:losuler.repo
# openSUSE Leap 15.2
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:losuler/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/home:losuler.repo

zypper refresh
zypper install zypper-automatic

Config

The configuration file located at /etc/zypper-automatic.conf has three main sections. The already filled in values in the examples below are the defaults.

Zypper

[zypper]
patch_categories =
with_interactive = false
list_only = false

patch_categories is a list delimited by commas , of patches you'd like to install. Categories include security, recommended, optional, feature, document and yast.¹

with_interactive when set to true will install "interactive patches, that is, those that need reboot, contain a message, or update a package whose license needs to be confirmed."²

list_only when set to true will only send a list of the patches waiting to be installed and will not install them.

Emitters

[emitters]
emitter =
emit_on = always

The emitter refers to one of the message services listed in the subsections below.

The emit_on setting defines when the message should be emitted. Valid options are 'always' (the default), 'update' which will trigger only when something actually happens (either an update or an error), and 'error' which will only send notifications when an error occurrs.

Email

[email]
email_to =

email_to is the email in which to send the notification to. It requires a Sendmail compatible MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) to be setup.

Telegram

[telegram]
token =
chat_id =

token is the token for the Telegram bot, which is provided by creating a bot by following the steps provided in the Telegram bot API documentation.

chat_id is the unique identifier for the target chat. It can be obtained by messaging the bot and executing the following command (replace $BOT_TOKEN). The ID may be found at "chat": {"id": 12345678},:

curl https://api.telegram.org/bot$BOT_TOKEN/getUpdates | python -m json.tool