Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (59 mails)

[Jan Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

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Michael Andres wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2008 09:55:11 Jan Kupec wrote:
> > bugzilla_noreply@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > --- Comment #2 from Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxxxxx>  2008-11-21 11:48:55
> > > MST ---
> > >
> > > The second one is not necessarily a bug, because the solver uses
> > > different policies in 'dup' and 'up'. I suppose this will confuse several
> > > people, as they don't know what's the command they want to use. And as
> > > the zypper output is not very versbose, it's not that obvious why those
> > > packages were not considered in 'dup'.
> > The question is what should zypper show to make it obvious. It would
> > need some additional info from the solver, currently it just gets which
> > packages are going to be installed and which removed - no hit why. Or is
> > there something more?
>
> No, it's about zypper displaying just the package names. It might become more 
> obvious, if one sees more details about the packages changes.

sure, this is planned. I thought you have something else in mind - some
sort of explanations why some packages have or haven't been selected, etc...

>       foo (upgrade   2.1 -> 2.2)
>       baa (downgrade 1.1 -> 0.9, arch i386 -> x_86_64)
>       reh (reinstall 1.1 -> 1.1, vendor packman -> openSUSE)
>
> It might also be helpfull to display an abstract of the solver policies, so 
> one recognizes the different rules active for 'up' and 'dup'
>
>       allowdowngrade    = 1
>       allowarchchange   = 1
>       allowvendorchange = 1
>       allowuninstall    = 0
>       ..
>
>
> If you now don't see 'reh' in 'zypper up', but see
>
>       allowvendorchange = 0
>
> you know why it's not there without need to file a bugreport.

Yes, this is a good idea.


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cheers,
jano


 Ján Kupec
 YaST team
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