http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500382
User jkupec@novell.com added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500382#c14
Ján Kupec
it is actually not quite similar...
yast -> install software -> summary -> all in this list -> update if newer
is supposed to behave exatly the same as "zypper -r up"
No, it's not, see c#13
(without the -r zypper only handles packages for the official repositories).
It seems like you're talking about an older zypper (but you're report is filed against openSUSE 11.1). See http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Changes/11.1. zypper up/lu now updates with newer versions of packages, zypper patch/lp updates via (official) patches.
What this bug is about is the fact that yast, used as described above, updates MORE packages than zypper,
yes, explained in c#13. It's not a bug actually, but the documentation can be improved, as i suggested earlier. Can we settle on that? @Thomas: we could also add the doUpdate() functionality to YaST (i thought it was already there somewhere).
sometimes leading to deinstallation of packages, up to a degree where a whole desktop environment gets uninstalled... rendering a machine useless.
well, it won't make your machine useless automatically - it just proposes some solutions to encountered dependency problems with the user's request (the request to update some package) - you actually have to choose a (bad) solution and click Finish to make your system 'useless' - but that's not a bug (sometimes there is no good solution) and it's not what this report is about -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.