Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After a few weeks of staying with one state of the Factory system, I
> decided to update to a current state once again a few hours ago. This
> requires about 5 GB of download and a few hours to run, so it's not
> something I'm doing lightly and often.
>
> And once again, as so often, YaST started to spit out errors right in
> the middle of the process telling me the Factory repo doesn't contain
> some of the packages it wanted to install - probably it's been updated
> underneath my install and the packages had been replaced with newer
> versions. I canceled and tried again and then I ran into the same
> problem with the KDE4 Desktop OBS repo halfway in the install.
>
> Can't we have some system that doesn't frustrate you by pulling out
> files you need right while you're installing them? Couldn't OBS keep
> files, say, 12-24h after they have been removed from the repo index?
>
> This is frustrating enough that I'm only updating this system very
> rarely nowadays, and I think updating often and testing newer stuff is
> actually what Factory should be about. The problems I should deal with
> (if any at all) are ones that arise due to new code, not due to the repo
> info not matching the available files at the time I'm actually trying to
> install them.
>
> Is there any solution for this?
>
> Robert Kaiser

This should help you, important is that you must must disable
autoupdate, so you do refresh and after download of rpm you install it.
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/10/30/how-survive-zypper-dup-on-system-with-bad-internet-connection/
JR
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