Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 22:36 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
> j.e.perry@xxxxxxx said the following on 08/04/2011 09:46 PM:
> > Do I need to fix something? What?
>
> No.
>
> You said
>
> > zypper dup to sypper up
>
> (Supper?  Slipper?)
>
> What you are seeing is the difference between "dup" and "up"
>
> The man page says
>
> update (up) [options] [packagename] ...
>        Update installed packages with newer versions, where possible.
>
>       This command will not update packages which would require
>       change of package vendor unless the vendoris specified in
>       /etc/zypp/vendors.d, or which would require manual resolution
>       of problems with dependencies. Such non-installable updates
>       will then be listed in separate section of the  summary
>       as "The following package updates will NOT be installed:".
>
> and
>
> 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
>       repositories, removes packages that are no longer in the
>       repositories and pose a dependency problem for the upgrade,
>       handles package splits and renames, etc.

Indeed. I have a laptop that I have been using 'up' on. I get similar
things not being installed (especially NetworkManager, gstreamer stuff,
and the python numpy stuff). If I do a 'dup' it wants to revert many
things to older versions to be able to install these things 'up' won't
install. I suspect there is some issue with versions of packages in some
combinations of repos. In fact, it wants to revert so many things that I
have not done the 'dup'.

Mine is on 11.4. I don't have any real problems, so I have let these
packages be as 'up' leaves them.

I would imagine one should use care when using 'dup'. Depending on the
repos you have enabled, I could imagine some unexpected results. Having
said that, I have never had a problem when I have used it.


Yours sincerely,

Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

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