2007/12/18, Bjørn Lie :

tir, 18.12.2007 kl. 07.03 -0600, skrev David C. Rankin:

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Listmates,

I enjoy working from the cli and like zypper, but I'm stumped as to why zypper lu or zypper up shows no updates available while Yast -> software management -> packages -> all packages -> update if newer shows 500M of updates?

When running zypper, it goes through and refreshes each repo the same as yast does, so I would expect it to list all updates as well. It doesn't.

Why does zypper go through each repo if it doesn't get the updates from each repo? Is there a way I can make it do that? Why is zypper missing the updates yast finds.

Did you try to read the: zypper lu --help

Try this

zypper lu -t package and zypper up -t package

lu and up only deals with patches by default

Bjørn

For the future googlers, here is the output from zypper lu --help

embla:~ # zypper lu --help list-updates [options]

List all available updates

Command options: -t, --type <type> Type of resolvable (package, patch, pattern, product) (default: patch) -r, --repo <alias> List only updates from the repository specified by the alias. --best-effort Do a 'best effort' approach to update, updates to a lower than latest-and-greatest version are also acceptable.

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Hi, I'm new to zypper too. According to the differences between using zypper lu/up and zypper lu/up -t package, which one do you suggest to use in order to update a system? Valerio -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 18/12/2007, Valerio Bontempi wrote:

Hi, I'm new to zypper too. According to the differences between using zypper lu/up and zypper lu/up -t package, which one do you suggest to use in order to update a system?

Simply using "zypper up" is equivalent to using YOU or openSUSE updater to install important fixes & security updates. "zypper up -t package" will also install new versions of packages if they are available in your repositories too. This is often undesirable, just because a newer version of a package is available doesn't necessarily mean you want to switch from the supported version to the newer one in a buildservice repository. You can also use zypper up -t package -r <repository> which will upgrade all packages to newer versions available in the specified repository, which is a little safer. This could be useful for upgrading e.g. openoffice or firefox to a newer version from the buildservice, without switching all your other packages to unsupported versions too. Hope that helps -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org