On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 11:19 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On 12/8/2009 10:34 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
In Yast, in Software Maintenance -> View -> Package Groups, I select All Packages. Then I select Package -> All In This Group -> Update If Newer Version Available. In past releases, I think this was getting all updates. Seems less thorough than zypper dup.
I use this same method, and it seems to find all the updates.
The only time it doesn't "find" them is if it would change the source of a package, such as if you decide to upgrade to kde 4.3.4 and have to use one of the newer (potentially less stable) repositories.
Once you select the option "Switch system packages to the version in this repository" it will find these updates reliably across multiple repositories.
Perhaps this is it. Many of the packages were being replaced by things in repositories other than the original or the update one. I am guessing this flag is new behavior in 11.2?
Still its a LONG way from being as friendly or fast as Synaptic on Ubuntu.
But it sure beats the rpm dependency hell of not so very long ago! I suspect it is not so much that Ubuntu's tool is so much better as it is that Ubuntu compile so many things that finding a package for Ubuntu is easier, making any package manager's job easier. After all, you have to have the package before you can manage it. This is why I am starting to get familiar with OBS. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org