Ken Schneider - openSUSE ha scritto:
On 05/25/2010 06:45 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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On Monday, 2010-05-24 at 23:13 -0400, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
1) Reverting from G:S:2.28 to update repo and ran a zypper dup
Sigh...
A "dup" is intended to update from a version of the distro to the next. Otherwise it can break things. It will upgrade or downgrade everything to mimic the repo state.
It is also used to install updated packages that are in a different repo. The caveat, use at your own risk. YMMV
AFAIK, it will not limit itself to only "dup" the packages in one repo. It will do all of the active repos.
That is correct *but*, the only updates performed will be to newer packages which will NEVER be in the OSS and non-OSS repos. And the repo with the updates has to have a higher priority in order to be considered by dup. Using zypper dup is _not_ dangerous if you know what you are doing.
So, if you only have the OSS, non-OSS and update repos configured you will revert back to only the packages in those repos. dup gives preferential treatment to the repos with the higher priority.
Thanks all for your replies. Regrettably I have been not able to recover my "beloved" gdm so far. Latest attempts included: 1) zypper ref -f -b 2) renaming of all users's .gconf .gconfd .config .local folders (somewhere I red that we should renaming also ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome2 but I didn't try it so far) 3) re-installation of all Gnome pkgs, by following Carlos's hint Repos priorities are setted to: 11.2-update 90 11.2-oss 99 11.2-non-oss 99. Still insisting... -- Marco Calistri <amdturion> AMBIDEXTROUS, adj. Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org