Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (24 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 April 2009 17:55:45 Jan Kupec wrote:
> PGNet wrote:
> > _that_ is what i'm trying to avoid ... i.e, i want _only_ repo-based
> > updates of that ONE file from the repo.
>
> In other words, you want to lock all the packages from that repo, except
>  a few, so that the next time you run up (without arguments) or dup, it
> will upgrade only the few packages, right?
>
> What is your use case?
>
> This is what comes to my mind: i have 11.1 system with 11.1 repo + 11.1
> updates. I want to have the newest git, so i add a factory repo, but i
> want only git (and it's deps, as needed) from it. I want to keep my
> system up to date with 'zypper up'.
>
> If the repo in question contains only packages that are not in other
> repos, then there's no problem - zypper up will only update _installed_
> packages.
>
> The answer is no, this is currently not easily possible.

If the packages in that repo had a unique vendor, then one could add the 
repo with low priority. Explicitly install the packages from that repo. 
Then 'zypper up' will try to stay with that vendor. Right?

  ('zypper dup' will mess it up).


If we'd need a solution the that works independently from the 'vendor', we 
could try to use the repos 'alias' as 'vendor'. 

 - We'd need some repo attribute, so one can tell that the repo 'alias' should 
   play the role of 'vendor'.

 - We'd need to find a way to easily determine the repo an installed package
   came from.

 - And finally some support from the solver, because certain installed 
   packages will want to keep the 'repo' instead of the 'vendor'.

-- 

cu,
    Michael Andres

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