Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (18 mails)

[Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 14:34 +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
> Hi all and happy Xmas,
>
> I have been wondering what's the difference and overlap between what 
> 'zypper up' does and what 'zypper dup' does. At first I thought 'zypper 
> up' did 'package updates', while 'zypper dup' did only 'distro upgrades' 
> (like what we did from 11.1 to 11.2).
>
> But it looks for me now as 'zypper dup' also is the command to use for 
> single 'package upgrades', that is from one version to the next, 
> according to my following, current case:
>
> 1. I was running 11.2 i686 and ran the following
>
> a) zypper up - which upgraded some packages
> b) zypper dup - which upgraded even more packages
>
>
> 2. OpenOffice.org 3.1 was installed as part of 11.2. Then I added the 
> Build Service OpenOffice.org:UNSTABLE repo with YaST to get the latest 
> OpenOffice 3.2 (b4), and ran again:
>
> a) zypper up - which found nothing to do
> b) zypper dup - which upgraded OpenOffice from 3.1 to 3.2
>
>
> 3. Then I entered 
> YaST2>Software>Online_Update>Package>All_Packages>Update_if_newer_versions_are_available
>
> Firefox 3.6 (b5) was available - but asked to solve a dependice (delete 
> gnome vfs) before it could be installed.
>
>
> Can someone clarify even more what the difference/overlap and 
> equivalents are between
> zypper 'up' and 'dup'
> YaST2 Online_Update and Control-Center>System>Software_Update
>
>
> Rgds,
> Terje J. Hanssen

zypper dup will update and upgrade packages even from different
repositories. For example say you have libxine1 installed from the OSS
repository and you have subscribed to Packman repository which has an
updated version of libxine1. However zypper up will not update your
libxine1 since the update is from a repository different from the
installed package. zypper dup is what you will need to carry out such an
update/upgrade. You can also specify repositories from which to check
for dup, for example 

#zypper dup --from Packman

That is why you will see more upgrades when using zypper dup than zypper
up.

Hope that clears some confusion.


-- 
Atri

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