On Thu, 5 May 2011, Duncan Mac-Vicar P. wrote:
How is one supposed to install optional patches on 11.4? I can't make it work at all, neither via zypper nor via YOU.
Via zypper it just does not do anything: bash# zypper in -t patch -f fetchmsttfonts Patch 'fetchmsttfonts-4120' is not needed. [and that's it]
YOU does "something" (probably nothing), runs SuSEconfig and that's it.
zypper is telling you, the patch is not needed. What do you expect ZYpp to do?
I want to install it (install the package, run the script). That's what the patch is about, right?
In this case, I guess you want to fetch the fonts again? (did you delete them?) fetchmsfonts is a hack package that downloads fonts in the
I want to fetch the fonts for the first time.
post-install script. So if you need to rerun the script, then reinstall the package with -f, not the patch (the patch install is always a no-op which results in packages being installed).
Installing this patch was indeed no-op, resulting in nothing, no action whatsoever. No package was installed. Michal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org