On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Carlos F Lange wrote:

When I open YaST2 Software Management after a fresh install and after adding a few repos, including Packman, I have about 20 updates, mostly libs, such as libavcodec52 from Packman, preset as automatic updates.

If I do zypper up, I get "Nothing to do".

Why are they behaving differently and how can I get zypper to match YaST2?

I am creating a few scripts for streamlined installation in my lab computers and I am counting with zypper to by-pass the GUI.

Thanks.

Zypper up will not look at alternate repos for an already installed package. So if packman has newer versions of a package than the oss or -non-oss repo "zypper up" will ignore the packman version. I think "zypper patch" loosens those restrictions somewhat and is closer to what Yast is doing. FYI: "zypper patch" is the recommended command to apply security patches via zypper. zypper dup will ignore that criteria altogether and pull packages from where ever it finds them. Thus zypper dup should be run with some amount of care. But it is used heavily by the devs as they work with the factory repos, so they tend to talk about it / recommend it. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 07/23/2010 12:26 PM, Carlos F Lange pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

When I open YaST2 Software Management after a fresh install and after adding a few repos, including Packman, I have about 20 updates, mostly libs, such as libavcodec52 from Packman, preset as automatic updates.

If I do zypper up, I get "Nothing to do".

Why are they behaving differently and how can I get zypper to match YaST2?

I am creating a few scripts for streamlined installation in my lab computers and I am counting with zypper to by-pass the GUI.

Thanks.

You might want to try zypper dup instead if the installed packages need to change from one repo to another. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org