On 2012/04/14 10:08 (GMT-0400) Greg Freemyer composed:
HG wrote:
what does zypper in zypper do (or mean)? Updates zypper itself or?
Yes,
At least in 11.1 and 11.2 days, it was recommended you start your zypper dup style upgrades by upgrading zypper first.
I no longer see that advice on the wiki, so maybe things have smoothed out now.
I still do it, both out of habit, and because it seems safe and sensible. Except I don't. What I do, largely because most of my dups are to Factory, is: 1-zypper in rpm libzypp zypper wget curl mkinitrd perl-Bootloader yast2-bootloader openSUSE-release satsolver-tools (obsoleted in 12.2 by I'm not yet sure what) udev mc 2-zypper al <kernel> 3-zypper dup 4-zypper rl <kernel> 5-(optional) reboot 6-zypper dup My thinking is: 1-make sure foundational stuff is done first 2-generate initrd on a freshly installed kernel no more than once -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org