On 01/09/2020 14.30, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E.R. <robin.listas@gmx.es> [09-01-20 08:24]:
On 01/09/2020 14.19, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> [09-01-20 04:26]: [...]
Precisely why when zypper says "Hey, not my Virtualbox!", it shouldn't have tried to do anything, but that isn't what happened. After finding a virtualbox that wasn't zypper's zypper went ahead a tried to add packages to it anyway -- that is the problem. It shouldn't have, but it did.
zypper *only* cares that a package is present/installed, not that zypper installed it or that David installed it using other incantations and mystic.
As long as it is an rpm.
it does need to be in the rpmdb but does not need to actually be an rpm. The data in the rpmdb may be put there by hand, ie: faked, as long as it fits zypper's criteria.
I have never seen or heard anyone do this :-D -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)