Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (242 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Greg KH wrote:
> I added the repo to zypper, but when trying to do an update on a package
> that I know is newer, I get the following error from zypper:
>       There is an update candidate for 'git', but it is from a
>       different vendor. Use 'zypper install git-1.7.3.2-43.1.i586' to
>       install this candidate.
>
> Now I don't really want to have to have every user do this by hand for
> each package that gets added to tumbleweed, so how do I get this to be
> automatically overridden due to the fact that the 'git' package really
> is newer, and it should be installed.

Wow, how did you manage to use openSUSE without ever getting into
that situation before? :-)

Anyways, try
# zypper in --from openSUSE_Tumbleweed git-core

While I'm in the camp of the vendor stickyness supporters I'd
question whether the user interface for this kind of explicit
request is optimal. zypper asks for confirmation of the vendor change
anyways so it could just offer it right away instead of requiring
the user to call zypper again. I'm sure there are bug reports with
lengthy discussions about the behavior somewhere though.

cu
Ludwig

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