Le jeudi 27 novembre 2008, Cristian Rodríguez a écrit :

Philip Ashmore escribió: so that

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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.) Now I'm not saying it is easy to implement. I don't know enough about packaging in general to comment on that. But that would certainly be a useful feature to have. Users would be more willing to help us with testing specific repositories if they knew they can easily go back to their initial system state afterwards. -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:15:07AM +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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.

It's not very good in reverting package renames and package splits, though. I hope to add support for that in 11.2. Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder mls@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Markus Rex, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org