Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (282 mails)

[Juergen Weigert <jw@xxxxxxx>]

On Oct 11, 10 10:23:33 +0200, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
> On 10/09/2010 05:51 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > I guess "zypper lu" does not display what "zypper dup" will do.
>
> zypper up updates your system, defined as a collection of packages
> from a certain vendor.
>
> zypper dup CHANGES your system to a new state. It may downgrade,
> uninstall, remove, packages. The state is defined by the repository
> you dup against or repo priorities if you are not doing against a
> specific one.

Hmm, do we have a 'lu' equivalent for 'dup'?

> People still don't get the difference. Debian has dist-upgrade and
> upgrade too IIRC.
Me too. :-)

Changing 'to a new state' is not quite clear to me. 
If it would say, 'zypper dup -r openSUSE:11.3' can be used to go from 
e.g. 11.2 to 11.3 then it would be much clearer.

        cheers,
                JW-
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