Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (59 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 05 November 2008 15:10:12 Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I've pointed out a problem I had with updating from extra repository to
> local Yast people and I've been told to ask on this list.
>
>  A bit simplified, on 11.0 I have 3 repositories
> - the OSS one, shipping KDE-4.0.4, added automatically during install,
> priority 99
> - the online updates one, which has an online update for KDE (version 4.0.4
> too), added automatically during install, priority 20
> - KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop, which is where we prepare KDE-4.1.3 for 11.1,
> added manually by me to test the packages on the machine I use. Also
> priority 99, set by default, since I in fact didn't even notice the
> priorities when adding the repository - I simply added it, displayed it and
> selected updating of all packages if there was a newer version.
>
>  The problem is that with this setup the by-now-pretty-old KDE4.0.4
> packages from the online update take precedence over the much newer
> packages (which of course also already contain the fixes) from the KDE
> repository. In other words, I explicitly added a repository, selected to
> get newer versions from it, but it silently ignored this request for some
> packages. After I later eventually noticed, I tried to force them by
> explicitly selecting them, but that just gave me a lot of package conflicts
> that just puzzled me. Technically not that surprising, since it in fact led
> to a request to downgrade that package to KDE-4.0.4 from the KDE-4.1.2
> version I had before, but definitely strange from the user's point of view.
> To get what I wanted I had to either manually select the newest version of
> all affected packages or manually raise priority of the extra repository.
>
>  I can understand why online updates have higher priority than our official
> repositories, but this in practice feels wrong for extra repositories, for
> two reasons:
> - OSS is never going to get a newer package than online updates, but KDE
> repo is, and this setup of priorities won't let me easily update to it
> - we are not going to ship online updates for extra repositories, so I
> don't see the point of online updates having higher priority than them,
> also, by explicitly installing software from an extra unsupported
> repository I've more or less given up on being guaranteed online updates
> for them

The question is - what is extra repository - the ones added by user?

>  Would it be possible to order priorities as [official repos] < [official
> updates] < [extra repos]? Or maybe make the dialog for adding repositories
> also have a combo for [high priority]/[low priority]?

Would that help or would it confuse users?

Stano

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