http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017486 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017486#c1 Richard Brown changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |rbrown@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Richard Brown --- As posted on the mailinglist

I understand why you'd want non-interactivity but you need to consider why you get the prompts above

In all the cited examples above, the root cause is Packman

fdupes, gstreamer, etc have all been dropped from Packman

your chosen "zypper -n up --no-recommends" is therefore clinging to orphaned packages like a rotting corpse, and sooner or later your Tumbleweed system will run into issues as other packages depend on newer fdupes, gstreamer, etc which are resolved by using the packages in the official distro

This is a perfect case study of precisely why 'zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change' is my recommended way of patching a Tumbleweed machine - for all the time Packman had fdupes, gstreamer, etc you would have continued receiving updates from them, but now they've restructured what they're doing you currently have your system in an unhealthy state because it no longer reflects where your repositories expect you to be.

Of course, when a reluctant vendor change is proposed by zypper, zypper needs to inform you that it is doing something that potentially could have significant consequences on your system.

I think zyppers behaviour here is totally sane. It is most certainly not a bug. The problem is that external repositories a rarely maintained in a way that facilitates good smooth upgrades in all circumstances. And in this case, Packman is actually improving, but in order to make those improvements, you have painpoints like this during the transitiions.

I think the only viable option for a 100% automated Tumbleweed installation with consistent dependencies is one without any external OBS or Packman repos. This is also true for Leap, which is not immune from the problem cited above.

I do not think this is a bug to be fixed -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017486 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017486#c4 Michael Andres changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Status|NEW |CONFIRMED Severity|Normal |Enhancement --- Comment #4 from Michael Andres --- JFYI: zypper-1.13.26 has --force-resolution for all installing commands. Keeping it open wile thinking about adding some 'lock' option... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.