I have a mounting set of questions about zypper, which don't seem
to be addressed by any online docs I've read so far.
I don't know if this is an appropriate forum, and am happy for any
pointers to a better one.
My issues are under SLES 12, but I find those forums relatively
unresponsive. I'm assuming that SLES's version of 'zypper' isn't
critically different than other SuSE-related distributions, so
hopefully this is a good alternative.
One such question:
One on SLES 12 host, I sucessfully installed 'createrepo' with
zypper, and retained the RPM package.
I've copied it to another SLES 12 host, and am attempting to install
it via 'zypper':
localhost:~ # zypper --no-gpg-checks --no-remote install -y - /home/prior_release_RPM/createrepo-0.10.3-2.8.x86_64.rpm
...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
2 Problems:
Problem: createrepo-0.10.3-2.8.x86_64 requires /bin/sh, but this requirement
cannot be provided
Problem: This request will break your system!
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
keep bash-4.3-83.23.1.x86_64
...
Solution 2: do not install createrepo-0.10.3-2.8.x86_64
Solution 3: break createrepo-0.10.3-2.8.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
What is zypper trying to convey here? The local RPM database is
quite aware of the presense of the 'bash' package, and what it
provides:
localhost:~ # rpm -q --whatprovides /bin/sh
bash-4.3-83.23.1.x86_64
'zypper' seems to, as well:
localhost:~ # zypper --no-remote info --provides bash
...
Provides : [6]
bash = 4.3-83.23.1
bash(x86-64) = 4.3-83.23.1
config(bash) = 4.3-83.23.1
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/usr/bin/sh
Some details of my environment; let me know if any others would be
helpful:
localhost:~ # cat /etc/issue
Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (x86_64) - Kernel \r (\l).
localhost:~ # rpm -q zypper rpm
zypper-1.13.57-21.32.1.x86_64
rpm-4.11.2-16.21.1.x86_64
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Brian Reichert