Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxx> [03-28-12 11:03]:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:17:02PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > Upgrading to kde 4.8.1 required:
> >
> > The following packages are going to be downgraded:
> >   kdebase4-workspace-branding-openSUSE  12.1-55.52.1 -> 12.1-2.1
> >   kdelibs4-branding-openSUSE            12.1-15.3.9 -> 12.1-2.1 
> >   kdm-branding-openSUSE                 12.1-15.3.9 -> 12.1-2.1 
> >   libqca2                               2.0.3-3.1.2 -> 2.0.3-1.1
>
> Is that a problem?

No, only a comment.  It required saving file-names that were not to be
installed (do to conflicts) to a temp-file, then zypper in
names-from-temp-file and answering the conflict resolutions.  Not
rocket-science but perhaps convoluted to some users.
 
> It's due to the "fun" issue that osc doesn't copy over the Release field
> for packages, so, if you update the package, but don't bump the version
> number, things like this can happen.
>
> I had to change the way the vim package handled its version number for
> this very issue.

Your efforts are much appreciated. 99% of any problems I have had using
Tumbleweed have been of my own making  :^).

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