[opensuse] Don't totally rely on zypper <smilie>
Every morning when I boot up the system, the fist thing I do is to run 'zypper'. Which is what I did this morning. There were a couple of 'patches' to be installed. But then some hours later, while I was looking for a file in YaST, I did a check on updates/upgrades which have to made under the "Package>All Packages>Update if newer packages available" and found a large number of packages to be updated/upgraded. However, most of these were related to LibreOffice, which I install manually and directly from libreoffice.org, I ignored them. But was surprised to see that some 6 packages were listed as needing updating to new versions and all had to do with 'vlc'. The puzzling thing is is that vlc was installed from packman, the updates were to come from packman, and packman has a priority level of 95 set in Yast - which I assumed was also honoured by zypper. Anyway, no big deal re this, but I am flagging the idea that if one is always solely relying on zypper to update/upgrade your system then occasionally use YaST just to keep zypper honest :-) . BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.6 & kernel 4.0.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-05-16 11:13, Basil Chupin wrote:
Every morning when I boot up the system, the fist thing I do is to run 'zypper'. Which is what I did this morning. There were a couple of 'patches' to be installed.
You used "zypper patch" or "zypper up"? The former is the same as YOU, the second is the same as what you did with YaST.
But then some hours later, while I was looking for a file in YaST, I did
Some hours later there could have been new things propagated to the servers, which could well explain the differences between yast and zypper. By the way, I prefer to do the updates on halt, not boot, because often they require a restart of some/many/all services. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlVXXdUACgkQja8UbcUWM1z7pQD+L4xHSMzqCZgfMxwbv2yVh7nd IMXiYzzto4O36bK1l4MBAJA3YfHAZkgGjIR0jfr5pF1AaOndSUrgQa422LGmkNw1 =e5f9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 17/05/15 01:10, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Every morning when I boot up the system, the fist thing I do is to run 'zypper'. Which is what I did this morning. There were a couple of 'patches' to be installed. You used "zypper patch" or "zypper up"? The former is the same as YOU,
On 2015-05-16 11:13, Basil Chupin wrote: the second is the same as what you did with YaST.
As I think I already mentioned before, I ALWAYS run 'zypper refresh, 'zypper patch, then 'zypper up'. It's my stock-standard way of running 'zypper' - no deviations, no shrotcuts :-) .
But then some hours later, while I was looking for a file in YaST, I did Some hours later there could have been new things propagated to the servers, which could well explain the differences between yast and zypper.
A possibility of course. With my memory now becoming what it is, I *think* - but am not sure of course - that I actually ran zypper before going into YaST which is what prompted me to write the above.
By the way, I prefer to do the updates on halt, not boot, because often they require a restart of some/many/all services.
When service restarts are required after a zypper-run then I simply reboot the computer. Simple, yes? :-) . BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.6 & kernel 4.0.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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