[opensuse-factory] 'zypper dist-upgrade' tells me that 2 packages will be downgraded. Using '--no-cd' prevents that
Hi,
openSUSE Tumbleweed newbie here. Thanks in advance for reading this.
I've been running Tumbleweed for about a month now. After reading mailing list conversations, I see that running 'dup' or 'dist-upgrade' is the proper way to update Tumbleweed so I have the latest stable packages installed. Seeing that there was a new snapshot available, I ran 'sudo zypper dist-upgrade --dry-run --details' to remind myself what was going to change.
I that this warning that two packages would be downgraded:
The following 2 packages are going to be downgraded: libgnutls28 3.3.14-1.1 -> 3.2.21-1.1 x86_64 openSUSE-20150319-0 openSUSE libgnutls28-32bit 3.3.14-1.1 -> 3.2.21-1.1 x86_64 openSUSE-20150319-0 openSUSE
I'm working with a virtual installation, so I knew I could revert to a snapshot if things went wrong. I proceeded and was basically told to insert the CD. I forget the exact wording, but once I realized what it was trying to do I cancelled the dist-upgrade (since no packages had been installed yet) and used the '--no-cd' option. At that point _no_ downgrades were listed when I ran 'sudo zypper --no-cd dist-upgrade --dry-run --details'.
Questions:
* Should the CD/DVD repo be disabled upon a successful installation? * Should I use --no-cd instead? * In which scenarios would I want the CD/DVD repo enabled IF I have a stable Internet connection available? ** When I tested a 12.3 to 13.2 upgrade (12.3 to 13.1, 13.1 to 13.2) I had to use the --no-cd option each time or the upgrades would fail
Thank you for your time.
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On 2015-04-21 15:44, deoren wrote:
Questions:
- Should the CD/DVD repo be disabled upon a successful
installation? * Should I use --no-cd instead? * In which scenarios would I want the CD/DVD repo enabled IF I have a stable Internet connection available? ** When I tested a 12.3 to 13.2 upgrade (12.3 to 13.1, 13.1 to 13.2) I had to use the --no-cd option each time or the upgrades would fail
Thank you for your time.
I think that you should disable the CD soon after factory/tumbleweed installation, because it becomes obsolete.
In a stable release the situation is different: it is not obsoleted, and you should not normally run "dup". Disabling it or not just depends on whether you prefer using internet or not, when possible.
On a distribution upgrade you can not have the CD/DVD of the previous release, same as you have to disable all the old repos. You might have the DVD of the target release.
- -- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith))
On 4/22/2015 11:00 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I think that you should disable the CD soon after factory/tumbleweed installation, because it becomes obsolete.
In a stable release the situation is different: it is not obsoleted, and you should not normally run "dup". Disabling it or not just depends on whether you prefer using internet or not, when possible.
On a distribution upgrade you can not have the CD/DVD of the previous release, same as you have to disable all the old repos.
Thanks for the response and thanks even more for going into why it should or should not be disabled depending on the circumstance. I'll add this to my notes for future reference. :)
You might have the DVD of the target release.
Good tip, I wouldn't have thought to do that.
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Carlos E. R. -
deoren