Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (27 mails)

[Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@xxxxxxxxx>]

  Zypper -dup may choose to remove important user programs if it can not
satisfy its dependencies. This is especially the case if zypper wants to
switch the arch of certain packages as in Bug 506801
(https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506801).
  My suggestion would be not to let zypper purge any non-lib packages
unless the force option is used.
  Another approach would be to simply collect a set of core packages
which should never be removed on a dup (without force). My suggestion
for this would be to add all packages which are installed by a minimum
system installation via the Opensuse installer to /etc/zypp/systemCheck.
  There is always a lot of output if you initiate a zypper dup and
packages to be deleted are easily overlooked so that I would prefer an
overrestraining approach that requires a --force for perfectly
reasonable dups in favour of a too sloppy one.
  What do you think about it?

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