Feature changed by: Robert Davies (robopensuse) Feature #309274, revision 6 Title: zypper: option to automatically select "keep obsolete xyz" answer openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michal Marek (michal-m) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When tracking Factory, it often happens that there is a new library A, but package B built against this new library is not available yet. zypper dup usually offers to either delete B, switch A and B from x86_64 to i586 or to not update A. I almost always chose not to update A in such cases. I want new packages, but not at any cost :-). So I'd like an option like zypper dup --fallback-keep-obsolete that would answer such questions automatically and let me review only "real" problems. Relations: Discussion: #1: Michal Marek (michal-m) (2010-04-07 16:06:35) Added attachment zypper dup session showing the usability problem (zypper-dup.txt) #2: Michal Marek (michal-m) (2010-04-07 16:07:27) (reply to #1) The reason why there are so many dependency problems is that I have a perl-DBD-Oracle package installed, which requires an older perl, which in turn prevents all the perl modules from being updated. That's my problem, but what bothers me is that I'm asked 77 questions where the "safe" answer always has a different number. Much like a "This copy is unregistered, press button nr. $RANDOM to start"-type of dialog, only repeated 77 times :-). + #3: Robert Davies (robopensuse) (2011-07-26 13:37:16) (reply to #2) + I have noticed this to even on simpler update problems, the "safe" + answer was "1" 4 times say, then suddenly the next 2 the numbers + meanings reversed making "1" distastrous and the previous answer was + now "2". Some kind of persistence for sense of alternative option s + would be good, because you do not expect it to change, during one run + of resolve check. It may have seemed different to system on basis of + package name or dependency changing, but the action was delete. + It is worse with zypper at cmdline than Software Manager, because 100's + of lines can scroll the wanted option into practical invisibility. At + least Software Manager only shows about 5 lines, for drastic change + proposals. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309274