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[ianseeks <ianseeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 22 Jan 2010 10:00:09 Lars Müller wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:25:37AM +0000, ianseeks wrote:
> [8<]
>
> > I had exactly the same result as you yesterday. I tried a few times with
> > no luck so I resorted to doing a fresh install via DVD in the end. I
> > then added the Factory KDE4 repo to get the the latest KDE4 - Yast
> > doesn't install anything from this repo no matter what priority i set so
> > i had to use "zypper dup" to get it.
>
> up and patch does _not_ perform vendor changes!
>
> while dup does.
>
> From man zypper on a openSUSE 11.2 system:
>
> dist-upgrade (dup) [options]
>        Perform a distribution upgrade. This command applies  the  state
>        of  (specified)  repositories onto the system; upgrades (or even
>        downgrades) installed packages to versions  found  in  reposito-
>        ries,  removes  packages  that are no longer in the repositories
>        and pose a dependency problem for the upgrade,  handles  package
>        splits and renames, etc.
>
>        If  no  repositories are specified via --from or --repo options,
>        zypper will do the upgrade with all defined  repositories.  This
>        can  be  a  problem if the system contains conflicting reposito-
>        ries, like repositories for two different distribution releases.
>        This often happens if one forgets to remove older release repos-
>        itory after adding a new one, say  openSUSE  11.1  and  openSUSE
>        11.2.
>
>        To  avoid  the  above  trouble, you can specify the repositories
>        from which to do the upgrade using the --from or --repo options.
>        The  difference  between  these two is that when --repo is used,
>        zypper acts as if it knew onle the specified repositories, while
>        with  --from  zypper can eventually use also the rest of enabled
>        repositories to satisfy package dependencies.
>
> Lars
I used "dup" to get from 11.1 to 11.2 but i didn't realise that you needed it 
to get KDE4 factory updates
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