Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3182 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Dňa Št 15. Marec 2007 19:44 Adam Jimerson napísal:
> Is there a way to get YaST to list available updates to third party
> programs like it does for every other program?  It is slightly annoying
> to run the online update in YaST and it will tell me that there is no
> updates, then I go into Package > All Packages > Update if Newer Version
> is Available and it will have several updates listed.

In fact, you are not using a right tool.

YaST Online Update is a tool to install fixes published by Novell to fix 
problems. Each fix is delivered in a form of patch. Patch in ZYPP speak is a 
way to make sure the fix is applied on your system (this might mean updating 
packages). Thus, by default, YOU just applies patches.

For updating of a packages to newer versions, you should use 'Software 
Management' YaST module and the option to 

Stano
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