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[Bug 500382] zypper and yast2 have different opinions about what needs updating
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  • Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:45:01 -0600 (MDT)
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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500382

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500382#c14


Ján Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Ján Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxxxxx> 2009-05-14 10:44:59 MDT ---
(In reply to comment #12)
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

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