On 02/09/2016 08:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
don fisher composed on 2016-02-09 18:39 (UTC-0700):
I added the Pacman 14.2 repo back to my system. When I perform a "zypper up" I receive:
The following 82 package updates will NOT be installed: amarok amarok-lang fdupes ffmpeg gstreamer gstreamer-0_10 ... vlc-gnome vlc-noX vlc-noX-lang vlc-qt
These packages are all listed in Yast2 under the Packman repository. The heading in Yast2 says "Switch system packages to the versions in this repository(packman)". I do not wish to do that.
Looks to me like you are misreading something. When it tells you packages will NOT be installed, it means what it says, newer packages exist, but it's going to leave them where they are.
Is there an easy way to eliminate the linkage between these files and packman. When I do an upgrade, and include the packman repository, it tries to download all of the packman versions.
Depends what you mean by "upgrade" and "linkage". I think of update vs. upgrade as install bugfixes vs. replace old versions with later versions. YaST and Zypper remember where installed packages come from, and won't switch the repos they come from unless they know that's what you want.
I find it easier to understand what will or won't happen by using Zypper. Unless you reconfigure zypper from its defaults, or add cmdline switches, zypper will not switch a package from one repo to some other repo.
My goal is to get back to the base 42.1 system and just add a few things from packman, like k3b that knows about mp3 and other codecs.
Get the packages you want from Packman either via YaST or Zypper, then lock them. After locking, disable Packman, then do your "upgrading", whatever upgrading means to you. With Packman disabled, no upgrades or anything else will come from it.
I wish to try again. I upgraded my 13.2 system to Leap 42.1. I believe the packages listed above are remnants of the 13.2 system. I will use amarok as an example. If I enter Yast2, and search for amarok, I get, under versions: 2.8.0-11.3-x86_64 from vendor openSUSE(installed). But the package is still listed under the packman repository, with an option to select 2.8.0-32.5-x86_64. I would like to eliminate all of the references to packman versions of openSUSE(installed) packages. There must be a file on my system someplace that retains the relationship between these previously installed packages, and packman. I would like to edit this file and remove the references to the above listed packages. The upgrade I referred to is performed using the distribution DVD and selecting the upgrade option. If I select the packman repository along with the 42.1 repos, it offers to reload all of these files with the packman version. Thanks, Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org