On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Anil Seth wrote:

Hi,

Thanks very much.

On 3 April 2011 03:53, Christian Boltz wrote:

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The good news is that there's a way to allow specific vendor changes with zypper up (zypper handles them as being the same vendor). Credits go to the Evergreen team, they recommend this way on http://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen#How_to_activate

In short, create a file /etc/zypp/vendors.d/evergreen with the following two lines:

[main] vendors = openSUSE Evergreen,suse,opensuse

If you replace "openSUSE Evergreen" with tumbleweed (use the exact Vendor: tag!), zypper should pick up new tumbleweed packages when running zypper up.

I hope I got the vendor tag right - obs://build.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed

I will wait for additional packages in Tumbleweed to be sure that I got it right.

Regards Anil

So is the above going to be Tumbleweed standard practice? ie. update user's machine config to allow "zypper up" to update from OSS to Tumbleweed packages without making a big deal of it to the user. If so, I can update the wiki page, but it would be nice to get a better repo designator for Tumbleweed than the current one. I believe it's currently: obs://build.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed The Evergreen project has it as just Evergreen without the prefix. But a big negative is that it also means packages can be "upgraded" from tumbleweed to a online update without the user being notified that something unusual is happening. In particular, a issue like the virtual-box one where the online update had a larger version number than the one in tumbleweed would cause problems / failures without even asking the user if it was okay. It's not clear to me if the version number conflict issue was resolved or not. If resolved, I like the "zypper up" approach instead of the "zypper dup --from Tumbleweed" approach. ==> details It's been working good for Evergreen as far as I know. (I'm on the Evergreen list.) Based on the Evergreen wiki page, the Tumbleweed wiki page would just get the below update: (Hopefully without the "obs://build.opensuse.org/openSUSE:" part. ====== create a file /etc/zypp/vendors.d/tumbleweed with the following content [main] vendors = obs://build.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed,suse,opensuse You can do this from the command line by cutting and pasting the below. You will need to enter the root password for sudo to complete. cat > /tmp/tmp.tumbleweed << EOF [main] vendors = obs://build.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed,suse,opensuse EOF sudo mkdir /etc/zypp/vendors.d sudo cp /tmp/tmp.tumbleweed /etc/zypp/vendors.d/tumbleweed Afterward you should get available updates when you use sudo zypper up. ====== Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org