Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (149 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

Dňa Tuesday 02 September 2008 14:30:35 ste napísal:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > Dňa Tuesday 02 September 2008 09:55:53 Martin Vidner ste napísal:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have tried to update oS 11.0 to SLES 11 Alpha2 using zypper dup.
> >
> > Apples to oranges? Please, don't do that.
> >
> > > The proposed transaction only contained a dozen of packages, and it
> > > turned out that zypp thinks the SLES packages have no vendor
> > > specified. Is that a known bug? (Or a "feature"?)
> >
> > Hard to tell with such crazy scenario.
>
> That's not a crazy scenario at all IMO.  Though zypper dup is not the
> official distupgrade way, and we don't officially support upgrading to
> alphas or beta anyway (though I've always done that for instance), libzypp
> should behave "reasonable" in these circumstances.  And I don't consider
> the described behaviour such.
>
> If nothing else it points to a problem in meta-data generation if the
> packages from SLE11 really have no vendor or no known one.

I agree, this looks suspicious. But it should be reproduced on something that 
can vaguely point to a valid scenario, so we can at least reproduce it in 2 
months.

Stano
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