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On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 22:36 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
j.e.perry@cox.net said the following on 08/04/2011 09:46 PM:
Do I need to fix something? What?
No.
You said
zypper dup to sypper up
(Supper? Slipper?)
What you are seeing is the difference between "dup" and "up"
The man page says
update (up) [options] [packagename] ... Update installed packages with newer versions, where possible.
This command will not update packages which would require change of package vendor unless the vendoris specified in /etc/zypp/vendors.d, or which would require manual resolution of problems with dependencies. Such non-installable updates will then be listed in separate section of the summary as "The following package updates will NOT be installed:".
and
dist-upgrade (dup) [options] Perform a distribution upgrade. This command applies the state of (specified) repositories onto the system; upgrades (or even downgrades) installed packages to versions found in repositories, removes packages that are no longer in the repositories and pose a dependency problem for the upgrade, handles package splits and renames, etc.
Indeed. I have a laptop that I have been using 'up' on. I get similar things not being installed (especially NetworkManager, gstreamer stuff, and the python numpy stuff). If I do a 'dup' it wants to revert many things to older versions to be able to install these things 'up' won't install. I suspect there is some issue with versions of packages in some combinations of repos. In fact, it wants to revert so many things that I have not done the 'dup'. Mine is on 11.4. I don't have any real problems, so I have let these packages be as 'up' leaves them. I would imagine one should use care when using 'dup'. Depending on the repos you have enabled, I could imagine some unexpected results. Having said that, I have never had a problem when I have used it. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org