Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (818 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, 2011-09-16 at 12:56 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

> Yeah but when I use yast {even with the X gui version} it REALLY confuses
> me. NONE of it's interface is intuitive to me. If I was going to use a gui,

I find YaST much more intuitive than zypper. You can review rpm by rpm 
wether they will be upgraded or not, for example.


> > So in order of aggressiveness:
> >
> > - zypper patch   only official updates
> > - zypper up      updates with all available package updates, no vendor
> >                  change or downgrade. (includes "patch" parts too)
> >
> > - zypper dup     try to move the system to the state reflected by the 
> > repositories.
> >                  useful for switching to a new distro, or following openSUSE 
> > Factory.
>
> Thanks. So I'm thinking I'll just use zypper up most of the time with an
> occasional zypper dup when there are getting to be too many packages listed
> as NOT being updated...

I would stay clear of zypper dup, unless you really understand what it 
does, or if you use it to change distro version.



> > http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade
>
> Thanks... That looks like a great how-to.
>
> One concern, it seems to advise to only use a limited few repos for the
> zypper dup step, and that having too many could lead to a failed upgrade.

Correct.

It is quite complicated to guess what it will do.

> But what happens to software installed with 11.3 versions of repos for
> which I haven't installed the 11,4 versions of???

If there is another version in the enabled repos, it will be downgraded or 
upgraded to it. If there is no version, it will stay put. I think.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
       (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)

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