Feature changed by: Ján Kupec <jkupec@novell.com> Feature #302186, revision 13 Title: zypper needs ability to specify version of package to be manipulated. openSUSE-10.3: Done Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: Ján Kupec <jkupec@novell.com> + Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: zypper needs to be able to install/update/remove a specific version of a package, e.g.: $ zypper install libcurl4 =7.16.1-13 Exact syntax needs to be discussed. References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247320 Discussion: #1: Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> (2007-05-22 10:34:30) Stano, is the suggested syntax OK with you? For me it sounds good. #2: Ján Kupec <jkupec@novell.com> (2007-05-22 11:27:11) A complete syntax of version specification then would be something like: zypper [global-options] < command > [command-options] [resolvable-name [version-specification]] for command: install | remove | update(?) | info | patch-info | search | $the_other_unimplemented version-specification: [relation-op]< version > relation-op: = | > | < | >= | <= (default: =) #3: Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@novell.com> (2007-05-22 11:35:30) (reply to #2) Is this syntax compatible with rug? #4: Ján Kupec <jkupec@novell.com> (2007-05-22 12:38:47) (reply to #3) The rug manual doesn't say, so asking rug maintainer to provide the info. #5: Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> (2007-06-12 15:48:29) (reply to #4) Answer from Duncan on how ZLM is specifying the version: IIRC you jsut specify something like package-1.0-2 in the cmd line. At least something like that worked when we implemented "best package" feature for ZLM. #6: Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> (2007-06-12 15:49:07) (reply to #2) IMO if you want to specify a version to install, you specify exact version and not the version range. #8: Martin Vidner <mvidner@novell.com> (2007-07-27 19:45:03) I have implemented (in zypper r 6273) installing by capabilities (Feature 301956), which includes almost what is wanted here, namely zypper {in,rm} 'NAME [OP EDITION]' . I decided not to use NAME-VERSION so far because it seems it would misbehave on packages like dbus-1-x11and java-1_4_2-gcj-compat. #9: Ján Kupec <jkupec@novell.com> (2007-08-06 18:36:37) Based on discussion on zypp-devel, I've changed the syntax to NAME[OP (EDITION)] (without spaces) as zypper 0.8.9. Marking as done. NAME-EDITION syntax is not yet implemented, but we should consider that as a rug compatibility feature (covered by FATE #302148) , thus we have time to implement that for SLE-11. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=302186