Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/01/2010 07:52 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I found the beginnings of the problem.

Nope, you found a very old ... and tired ... problem. The scenario goes like
this. I do a complete update with yast sw_management -> packages -> all packages
-> update if newer rpm available. Yast collects a list of all newer rpms and
updates. Then I cross-check just for grins with zypper up -t package (old
behavior with 'patch' as default). And what do you know, I get a whole new and
different list of rpms that zypper thinks I need. So I install them too. No
problem -- right?

Linda,

        I have seen this in one way or another since the end of 10.3. I have 
been using
yast for sw updates as described above, so after getting your post, I checked
again with zypper. zypper deleted about 10 packages and installed another 15
packages totaling 48M that yast was happily ignorant of. (zypper did catch the
fact that multiple versions of gcc44-info were installed and that the rpm 'lzma'
was conflicting with '/usr/bin/lzma' installed by xz.

        I've never seen a firm answer beyond the packages just being different. 
But
after using either or both for years -- it's not something to lose sleep over.
(Now the devs -- they should be losing sleep over it, and should have been for
the past 3 years ;-)

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