On 07/12/2020 20.17, Brian Reichert wrote:
> 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.

Of course it is.

>
> My issues are under SLES 12, but I find those forums relatively
> unresponsive.

Well, that's a problem, because this is an openSUSE forum. I know verly
little about SLES, so I can only answer assuming that it is sufficiently
similar to Leap.

But SLES 12 is old, around 2014.

> 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.

On SLES there must be some method of verification that you are a client
to be able to download updates. There is nothing like that on Leap -
that's an important difference.

>
> 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:
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