Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (549 mails)

[Jano Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

On 11/09/2009 09:50 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I decided to try out the <http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade/11.2> process
> via zypper.  (I had been testing wagon, because I assumed others were
> testing zyperr.)
>
> Remember upgrade via zypper dup and wagon are both now supported.
> This is not at all what I expected.
>
> I first updated my repos as requested in:
> <http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade/11.2#CLI>
>
> I then disabled the old repos and added the 11.2 repos.  (See detail 1
> below my sig for exactly how my repos were setup.)
>
> I then tried the last of the preparation steps:
>
> zypper refresh          # Refresh the local metadata and repo contents
> zypper in zypper        # Pull in zypper from the 11.2 repository
>
> It is the results of zypper in zypper that I find very unexpected.
>
> At a minimum the Upgrade page needs to warn users to expect this
> extreme behavior is what is expected.  See below:

> gaf@tiger3-64bit:~> sudo zypper in zypper
...
> Overall download size: 172.8 M. After the operation, additional 53.4 M
> will be used.
> Continue? [Y/n/p/?]:
>
> ===============
> Is that all right?

Maybe it is, but it's a lot of packages. I would at least be suspicious
and tried to enter 'p' here (which is basically the same as 'n' and then
'zypper in --no-force-resolution zypper') to find out what triggered
installation of those many packages.

-- 
cheers,
jano


 Ján Kupec
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