* Thomas Langkamp
Am 23.07.2016 um 10:17 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
On Saturday 2016-07-23 03:41, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* C. Brouerius van Nidek
[07-22-16 21:36]: [...] Thanks for the reminder. A sole 23 updates is the result.
As I have a relatively slow internet connection I do a daily update in order not to get all at onec with a snapshot.This is the first time that I got s abnormal result wit zypper dup.
I have seen it before, usually when an update has not yet completed build, iiuc.
If an update has not built yet, then you cannot upgrade to it. But that also means there is nothing to downgrade to, because you are already on the old version.
the following applies only to packman-repo-users:
The downgrades for me were caused mostly by ffmpeg 3.x to 2.x downgrade and thus quite some other stuff had to downgrade too and also quite some stuff switched from packman to official repo without a "real" downgrade. Only the buildnumbers were lower. So a zypper dup is still the right thing to do - otherwise you will stay with ffmpeg 3.x and get new packages at the same time that expect ffmpeg 2.x. they might not work together fully.
how did I find out? I ran zypper -v dup instead of zypper dup and looked closely. I think zypper -v dup should be the default. Same as running zypper inside screen should be the default. But there might be technical reasons against this I am not aware of - I am only a mere mortal user, not a dev ;)
You must remember that these "upgrades" actually provide packages w/o the functions provided by packman which are encombered by law/license and not provided by opensuse. USing "up" vs "dup" for these cases allows the process to complete w/o loosing desired function. And in my case, lowering the preference number for packaman is not sufficient to use "dup" w/o the vendor change. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org