Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (808 mails)

[Valentin Rusu <kde@xxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks for your thorough explanation.

On 08/12/2011 03:48 PM, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Friday, August 12, 2011 07:04:20 AM Valentin Rusu wrote:
>
> > Ok, and if I only want to get security updates, will a "zypper up" do or
> > should I always use "zypper dup"?
> Udate repo has only security and critical updates. 
> They are issued as patches and as packages, all residing at:
>   http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/
>
> To get only security and critical updates use:
>   zypper up -t patch 
> As no other then update repo has patches, this will install only security and 
> critical updates.
>
> The default of plain 'zypper up' is the same as:
>   zypper up -t package
> This will install updates for all packages in all enabled repos and as update 
> has packages that offer the same updates as patches, it will install security 
> and critical updates. 
>
> Importat is to know:
>
>   zyper up   
> updates packages to the highest version from the same vendor. 
>
> In other words if package belongs to vendor openSUSE, it will not switch to 
> some other vendor without asking for permission. It is also configured to ask 
> for permission only if there is no other way to fulfill your request for some 
> package.  If it can install updates without switching vendors, it will not 
> ask, even if newer version is available from another vendor, and you would 
> like to use that version. 
>
>   zypper dup 
> updates packages to the highest version from any vendor, and it doesn't ask 
> any questions along the way. 
>
> This comes handy with Tumbleweed that is considered different vendor then 
> openSUSE, but Tumbleweed repository is created with properties of  'zypper 
> dup' in mind. It will use openSUSE or Tumblweed without bugging users about 
> vendor change. Adding any other repository to the mix of openSUSE and 
> Tumbleweed is call for trouble, as many that did not follow the advice found 
> out.
>
> How to know which repo belongs to openSUSE?
> I use the rule of thumb:
> All at 
>   http://download.opensuse.org/
> is vendor openSUSE with exception of
>   http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/
> where each project is one vendor. 
> It is not waterproof, but it works most of the time. 


-- 
Valentin Rusu (valir)
KSecretsService (former KSecretService, KWallet replacement)

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