On 12/21/06, Craig Millar
I've noticed that zypper appears to be ignoring packages that it is aware have updated versions available. For instance, I know that there is a newer build of amarok in guru's repository, and it appears that zypper is aware of this too:
# zypper up --help update [options] Command options: --type,-t Type of resolvable (default: patch!) --no-confirm,-y Don't require user confirmation --skip-interactive Skip interactive updates Yes, by default zypper up will only apply patch-priority packages. As will Yast Online Update. This helps to avoid versionitis where people often do an update in their package manager of choice and change all their stable supported packages for untested third party packages on build service or other repositories. This is what many were doing with eg smart, and hence breaking their systems on a regular basis. It is a much better policy to update to newer versions only where you need to and stick with the packages which are supported by suse if you have no need to update. If you want update to update normal packages as well you can use zypper -t package to specify to apply version updates as well as patches. _ Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org