On 03/05/13 00:35, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
And then, on my wife's computer which is still running 12.2 - as "She who must be obeyed" doesn't want me (yet) to upgrade her system to 12.3 - I also use the kernel:stable:stable repo with the same Priority set and I found that when I went to update her system with "zypper up" it would come up with the latest kernel and would then install it. Doing the same a few minutes later on my 12.3 system I would get "Nothing to do" from zypper. But going to YaST I got the kernel updated. So now I stick with YaST, thank you. With secondary repos in the mix it is easy to get confused as to what is right.
Zypper up should never update a package currently installed from the main repos to a package in a add-on repo.
Once you force it to the use the add-on repo, zypper up should never switch you back.
You can get zypper to switch repos like that, but I will often use yast if I want to see what's available in various repos, then install the one of my choice.
To begin with, I have no idea of what you mean by, "You can get zypper to switch repos like that," and saying this I, therefore, have never - at least knowingly - used this option (whatever it may be). At no time since I started, years ago, using SuSE/openSUSE have not ever used anything but YaST to select and make active repos. I may add repos or enable/disable or alter their status in YaST but have *NEVER* used zypper to do so. Just to continue with what I stated in my original post (which you quote above): * on my 12.3 installation of oS, over the past few days (as an example) I have run both 'YaST>packages etc' and 'zypper refresh/up' and found that both agreed with what had to be updated *EXCEPT* that today zypper 'told' me that 7 packages have to be updated while YaST 'told' me that there were 8. Why the difference? [I chose YaST]; and, more importantly * I also have a copy of 12.2 installed. = A couple of days ago I had the kernel upgraded from 3.9.0-1 to 3.9.1-1 on oS 12.3 and this morning I decided that it was time to do some updates to the 12.2 system after not doing any for some time. = I start 'zypper refresh/up' and it shows me that XXX number of files will be updated - but *NOT* the kernel! = So I go into YaST and do the 'packages'-routine and guess what? YaST shows that the kernel will be upgraded from 3.9.0-1 to 3.9.1-1. But zypper did not. Why not? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 KDE 4.10.3 & kernel 3.9.1-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org