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Feature changed by: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich)
Feature #306116, revision 11
  Title: Better lock handling in zypper
   
  openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Christoph Thiel (cthiel1)
  reject date: 2009-07-16 18:04:38
  reject reason: out of resources for 11.2.
  Priority
      Requester: Important
      Projectmanager: Desirable
   
  openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation
  Priority
      Requester: Important
   
  Requested by: Marek Stopka (m4r3k)
   
Description:
  Currently only two states in locking of packages are available (keep
  package as is/do not care about package) but I think it would be much
  more better to have a possibility lock only some parameters of
  package... For example you have a 64bit machine, but you want keep some
  package always in i586 version, but you still wanna version updates in
  this case there should be a possibility to lock only this parameter. Of
  course there is a lot of options what else can be locked, for example
  version of package, meaning that you can't change package version, but
  release number can change...
   
  Discussion:
  #1: Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi) (2009-03-30 21:28:55) 
  I can see marginal value in an x86 vs x64 lock as 64 bits become more
  popular.
  upping to desirable.
   
+ #2: Ralph Ulrich (ulenrich) (2009-08-11 18:15:30) 
+ I hate zyppers locking behavior. If you just want to reasure your
+ upgrades by a quick search, here a case study: I upgrade my openSUSE
+ factory. For it is much I do not use  verbose to keep oversight:
+ "zypper ref && zypper dup"
+ Now I am unsure about an arch change (a vlc library becomes i686 from
+ pm but I want to stick with videolan.org), therefore on another console
+ I do:
+ "zypper se -s vlc"
+ Not possible - zypper search exits, it does not like the locked
+ database, why ?
   
   

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openSUSE Feature: 
https://features.opensuse.org/306116