-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2011-09-16 at 12:56 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Yeah but when I use yast {even with the X gui version} it REALLY confuses me. NONE of it's interface is intuitive to me. If I was going to use a gui,
I find YaST much more intuitive than zypper. You can review rpm by rpm wether they will be upgraded or not, for example.
So in order of aggressiveness:
- zypper patch only official updates - zypper up updates with all available package updates, no vendor change or downgrade. (includes "patch" parts too)
- zypper dup try to move the system to the state reflected by the repositories. useful for switching to a new distro, or following openSUSE Factory.
Thanks. So I'm thinking I'll just use zypper up most of the time with an occasional zypper dup when there are getting to be too many packages listed as NOT being updated...
I would stay clear of zypper dup, unless you really understand what it does, or if you use it to change distro version.
Thanks... That looks like a great how-to.
One concern, it seems to advise to only use a limited few repos for the zypper dup step, and that having too many could lead to a failed upgrade.
Correct. It is quite complicated to guess what it will do.
But what happens to software installed with 11.3 versions of repos for which I haven't installed the 11,4 versions of???
If there is another version in the enabled repos, it will be downgraded or upgraded to it. If there is no version, it will stay put. I think. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk518/YACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UX9wCeKbRWv5ateaDB9ZyN/qerw98I aa0AoJMbg7fF3rAN70adXHk3H4lQRLvL =3zs7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org