https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744200 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744200#c0 Summary: zypper orphanes packages and prevents them from possible update Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: nettezzaumanaa@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0 hello i've found (and noticed and reported earlier from different angle of view) that zypper locks possible update due to the not breaking a vendor change by default . see logs and take a look at the last activity .. i had to manually update several packages marked as ``(System Package)'' althought the almost same version was in repos (Packman case) or a higher version was available .. also rpm -qi shows a vendor: string pointing to packman .. i'm not sure why those packages came orphaned. summary: zypper -vv up combined with defaults that no vendor change is allowed during update and fact, that packages could orphane sometimes is not good. thanks for your time and regards. daniel ps. i've also found that plain ``zypper se -s'' (for further analysing) real extraordinary time .. perhaps some nested loop design makes that very utilizing Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.