Re: [opensuse-support] Find out what pulls in new packages on 'zypper dup'

Am Montag, 4. März 2019, 01:21:19 CET schrieb Patrick Shanahan:

* Maximilian Trummer [03-03-19 18:53]:

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Am Sonntag, 3. März 2019, 18:32:07 CET schrieb Patrick Shanahan:

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* Maximilian Trummer [03-03-19 11:52]:

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I'm trying to do a 'zypper dup' on a headless server, but it wants to install a load of unnecessary packages. Many of them are gtk stuff, but also cryptsetup, mdadm, PackageKit and fuse.

you don't say, but suggest: zypper -v --no-r --no-allow-v dup

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The upgrade would be from the currently running 20190222 to 20190301, which upgrades the schemes 'base', 'basesystem' and 'minimal_base'.

How can I find out what package is trying to pull in these new dependencies?> > try first the above and it may solve itself

if you still get unwanted pkgs, try adding specific locks

--no-recommends is just a temporary fix, those packages will still get --pulled in the next time or when using 'zypper install-new-recommends'.

I would add 'specific locks' if I actually knew what other package wants to install e.g. adwaita-icon-theme.

allow install of adwaita-icon-theme, then rpm -e adwaita-icon-theme rpm will advise you what it must erase to accomplish and you will have your answer.

is that the only unwanted app that remains when using --no-r ?

and you can set "--no-recommends" to be default in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf and use "--recommends" or --r to over-ride when needed. rpm -e $package just deletes the package because it's not a hard dependency.

I got another machine now that installed the chromium browser on 'zypper dup' for whatever reason. 'zypper se --recommends chromium' yields no results...