On 08/11/2020 20.47, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sunday 2020-11-08 20:27, Carlos E. R. wrote:
openSUSE Tumbleweed maintains backward compatibility to the latest openSUSE Leap/SLE 15.x release. Compatibility beyond that is not assured in any way. You should update your SLE 12 system to SLE 15, if you can.
She needs forward compatibility.
She has to update a TW machine that was not working for two months, so that it missed the rpm upgrade to the new payload compression scheme. Zypper fails because the packages she now downloads are compressed with an algorithm that the zypper and rpm she has in the machine can not decode.
That's why rpm itself is always packaged with bzip2, so that you can upgrade rpm using rpm to a version that knows how to decode zstd.
But, what do I see just now, is that rpm's deps are not bzip2.
Right. So she would need a version of rpm with static linking. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)