Hi,
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, Christian Morales Vega wrote:
It does? In this specific case there is a conflict that requires a downgrade. I think only asks because of this, the vendor change is just something casual.
Right now opensuseupdater-kde, with ZYpp backend, says me there are 49 updates available (all of them packages, I have all patches installed). One of them is the update from mjpegtools-1.9.0rc2-118.1 (from the DVD) to mjpegtools-1.9.0rc3-0.pm.1 (Packman). If I select mjpegtools it asks me the root password and installs it without more questions even when there is a vendor change.
Even if it is doing what you say... this behavior provokes that just a few months after the release it informs me about 49 updates I don't want. This is a problem because someday there will be a 50th update that I will want... am I supposed to do a manual exhaustive search between 50 items *everytime* I want to be sure I don't miss an update I want?
If you have all patches installed, then you have all relevant updates installed (e.g. released security updates, and important bugfixes). That the updater applet also shows packages with a newer version is an additional feature, if you don't want to manually track them you don't need to. But if you want to then yes, the only way is to manually inspect them.
I suppose the authors of the updater applet could add some feature that would allow the user to not show a particular package version as available anymore in order to make that list smaller without installing the newer packages. I guess an enhancement request would be appropriate. But libzypp has repository priorities support and a "do not change vendor" policy, zypper up -t package respects it. The updater "additional feature" should be to show "packages with a newer version"... ****ONLY**** in repositories with a higher priority and if
2008/8/4 Michael Matz