On 2013-08-04 16:25 (GMT+0200) Werner Flamme composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
# zypper se -s vlc | grep tter v | VideoLAN - VLC media player | pattern | | noarch | VideoLAN
# zypper -v in -t pattern VideoLAN Verbosity: 1 Non-option program arguments: 'VideoLAN' Initializing Target Checking whether to refresh metadata for Non-OSS Checking whether to refresh metadata for OSS Checking whether to refresh metadata for Packman Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Force resolution: No 'VideoLAN' not found in package names. Trying capabilities. No provider of 'pattern:VideoLAN' found. Resolving package dependencies... Force resolution: No
And the pattern name is "VideoLAN - VLC media player", at least that is what my zypper tells me. It is located in the videolan repo at http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/12.3/, but it has no version number.
Maybe Felix should try
zypper -v in -t pattern "VideoLAN - VLC media player"
At least, I get
'pattern:VideoLAN - VLC media player' is already installed. No update candidate for 'VideoLAN - VLC media player-.noarch'. The highest available version is already installed.
HTH
It does. The new questions are: 1-Why does the pattern exist (particularly since YaST2 didn't seem to be able to discover it)? Doing that wants to install 38 packages. Doing 'zypper -v in vlc' instead wants to install the same 38 packages? 2-Why does any packager find it necessary to give a package (or pattern) a 27 character name containing 4 separate instances of whitespace? That pattern "name" looks like a name followed by a description. 3-Repeat of $SUBJECT, meaning if zypper se can find it, should there not be some kind of fuzzy fallback that enables zypper to find it via substring instead of having to type something so lengthy? Surely there wouldn't be anything else with so prolix a name to confuse it with. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org