On 02/05/13 22:40, Anton Aylward wrote:
Basil Chupin said the following on 05/02/2013 03:42 AM:
I have stopped using zypper after a number of what I would consider strange behaviours. For example, it would "tell" me that there were no updates to be done even though I knew that, say, a new kernel was available - which I knew from doing updates on my wife's computer.
So I now use YaST>Package>All Packages>Update if Newer Packages are available. Works everytime.
I have got to this point in YaST but did not go ahead with actually doing the updates, exited YaST and went to zypper only to find that zypper showed that there was nothing to do; but YaST showed that there was a "ton" of updates to be done. I just tried that and found there were hundreds of updates.
So I stepped through the ones I used most and what did I find.
They weren't updates; the revision it wanted to install was the same revision I already had installed.
Hey! Surely that list would show in one column the new revisions in blue along side the old in black? There was none of that!
It would help terribly if you told us what the heck you are talking about: is it zypper or YaST?! :-D
My opinion: zypper was telling me the right stuff and yeast was wrong.
Ah, so you think that it is zypper which is "telling" you the truth? Well, from my experience in recent times - this did not happen until I would consider the beginning of this year - was that I trusted zypper. Every morning I would do "zypper refresh" and then do "zypper up" and found that zypper's response was "Nothing to do". For whatever reason I decided to go into YaST and do the "Package" rumba and found that there were some dozens of updates to be done! 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. BTW, I posted on 30 March about a problem with zypper under the humorous Subject of "We finally reached Windows standards :-) " where zypper came up with the "press any key to continue or press any key to abort" crap when I went a few times to update the kernel (at the time when I still believed in zypper being god). I ran YaST at that point and it updated the kernel with no nonsensical nonsense. Now, your reply does not mention which version of oS you are running: 12.2 or 12.3. I am running 12.3, so what are you running? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 KDE 4.10.2 & kernel 3.9.0-1 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