http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606220 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606220#c1 Ján Kupec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |jkupec@novell.com InfoProvider| |rvpittman+novell@gmail.com --- Comment #1 from Ján Kupec 2010-05-18 11:51:55 UTC --- This is actually intended. 1) you seem to have auto-refresh enabled for the repos 2) the repos are only refreshed if needed 3) you can avoid refresh with --no-refresh global option zypper --no-refresh rm packages 4) even if you remove, you may be offered solutions which actually install packages (to satisfy dependencies) 5) you can specify packages to install even while removing. Eg. zypper rm pkg1 +pkg2 Does that sound good, or would you still like zypper to not refresh repos marked 'autorefresh' by default? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606220 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606220#c3 Michael Andres changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|rvpittman+novell@gmail.com | --- Comment #3 from Michael Andres 2010-06-01 17:47:54 CEST --- (In reply to comment #2)

I'm also reasonably certain a "refresh" had been done within 24 hours so I'm curious what criteria it uses to determine a refresh is necessary.

The repositories index file is downloaded. It contains the names and checksums of all metadata files. They are compared against the copies on disk to determine which files need to be reloaded. (In reply to comment #1)

4) even if you remove, you may be offered solutions which actually install packages (to satisfy dependencies)

Yes, but frequently this is ping-pong. Deleting a provider of 'foo' the solver installs a different provider of 'foo' and vice versa. Instead it should also remove the package that requires 'foo'. It might be worth providing a 'zypper rm --no-install', which would simply use just @System, but none of the available repos (thus actually has no need to refresh). That's IMO better than 'zypper --no-refresh rm packages' which would simply ignore a need for refresh. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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