On 11/28/2008 at 9:52 AM, Jean Delvare
wrote: Le jeudi 27 novembre 2008, Cristian Rodríguez a écrit : Philip Ashmore escribió: so that the effects of installing any packages from that repository is rolled back. AFAIK, there is no such feature, and really I fail to see the need of it.
I do. When I am asked for example to give a try to KDE from Factory to see if a particular bug has already been fixed there, I would like to be able to return to the initial state of things when I am done with the testing, as I don't want to keep using a snapshot of Factory's KDE forever and I also don't want to have to update my KDE every week (otherwise I'd be using Factory as my distribution in the first place.)
This is a need not required by 'default' system users but only for very rare cases. Investing time in this sounds afwully wrong! On the other hand, what actually CAN help you (it's an abuse, but it does what you look for): zypper dup It actually checks to have installed only packages from the currently installed repositories, dropping packages which would no longer exist. I'm pretty sure in most cases it will do exactly what you expect in this situation. (BEWARE! This is for sure not it's meant way and it might have obscure side-effects... I take no liability and the rest you know... it might fry your toaster, burn your hard disk, crash your car, and so on). Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org