Hi all, zypper has undergone a major refactoring of its package selection code recently. This was mainly to enable automatic testing and to make it easier and safer to add new features. I'll submit zypper 1.4.2 including this change to Factory soon. It seems to work fine for the most part, but if you spot something that used to work for you in 1.4.1, please let us know via bugzilla. Don't forget to attach both zypper.log and solver test case [1]. The new version already enables use of unified package arguments (in install, update, and remove commands) in the form of: [+/-][repo:][type:]name[.arch][OPevr[.arch]] +/- (or ~|!) ; install/remove modifier repo = ; repo alias, number, or name type = patch|pattern|product ; if not specified 'package' isimplied name ; can even be a glob OP = -|=|>=|<=|>|< ; version operator evr = [epoch:]version[-release] ; edition (version) E.g. $ zypper in packman:xine-ui-0.99.5cvs20091115-0.pm.1.4 (don't forget to quote the args, if they contain ?/*/ or spaces) More about all this later ... There is still some work to do to fully support this (especially don't try foo.arch :O), but the main focus now is to make sure that all that used to work before works also now. For future plans see [2] and comments at [3]. Don't hesitate to send feedback to or discuss this stuff on zypp-devel@opensuse.org. [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Troubleshooting#Solver_Test_Case [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Roadmap [3] http://gitorious.org/opensuse/zypper/blobs/master/tests/SolverRequester_test... -- cheers, jano Ján Kupec YaST team ---------------------------------------------------------(PGP)--- Key ID: 637EE901 Fingerprint: 93B9 C79B 2D20 51C3 800B E09B 8048 46A6 637E E901 ---------------------------------------------------------(IRC)--- Server: irc.freenode.net Nick: jniq Channels: #zypp #yast #suse #susecz ---------------------------------------------------------(EOF)---