Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (66 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jano,

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:41:26PM +0100, Jan Kupec wrote:
> > this may be obvious, but I didn't find anything when I searched the
> > zypper man page for "exclude" or "ignore".
> >
> > How do I exclude a certain package from a repo that I am subscribed to
> > so that it doesn't update a package that I have on my system?
> >
> > I imported the following repo file into zypper, which works with yum:
> >
> > -# cat Application:Geo.repo
> > [Application_Geo]
> > name=Applications related to the earth (GIS, Mapping, geodesy, GPS) 
> > (openSUSE_11.0)
> > type=rpm-md
> > baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUSE_11.0/
> > gpgcheck=1
> > gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUSE_11.0/repodata/repomd.xml.key
> > enabled=1
> > exclude=autoconf          <----------
> >
> >
> > The same exclude line put into the .repo file in /etc/zypp/repos.d
> > doesn't have any effect.
>
> Libzypp does not support this AFAIK. To avoid
> installing/upgrading/removing of some package, lock it:
>
> $ zypper addlock foo

This sounds as if updates of the package are totally blocked then. Is
that the case? I don't want to avoid installing/upgrading/removing of
the package. It would be wrong to block regular updates to the package
(which would concern me).

> this will add the lock to /etc/zypp/locks, see also 'man locks'

I also looked into that man page yesterday, because it is linked from
the zypper man page, but I have to admit that I don't understand a word. 
Too abstract for me. :-(

On a related note, I miss a feature similar to "exclude" which comes
in very handy. Practically the opposite of "exclude", and I use it
rather often. It's called includepkgs in yum.conf speak (see
http://linux.die.net/man/5/yum.conf) and its purpose is that it lets me
ignore all but (a) certain package(s) from a repository.
For instance, when I want to get (and update) some tool from
network:utilities, but I don't want a pcap library that happens to be
there (no thanks!).

> > On a related note, I have also looked for something like --exclude on
> > the commandline, but to no avail. I am aware of the way to give package
> > names as arguments to zypper, with and without wildcards, and that works
> > fine for me, but sometimes an exclude on the commandline is useful as
> > well.
>
> Hmm.. right, there's nothing like that available in zypper. Once you use
> a wildcard, it will consider all matches. Yeah, i guess it might be
> useful to be able to exlcude some of the matches. Could you please file
> an enhancement request in bugzilla? (I'll probably close it as wontfix
> :O) but don't worry, it'll be still alive in
> http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Bugs_For_Adoption ... which reminds me i
> should advertise the page a bit :O)

Shouldn't we rather add FATE or openFATE requests for these features?

These are important features in my view on the way to make zypper
usable for admins.

(Yes, it is getting there :-) I am currently running yum and zypper
aside on some machines, closely comparing and validating what's
happening. And I can say, there are quite some things that work
pleasantly already. Very happy that I can finally keep old kernels, for
instance.)

Thanks,
Peter
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