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Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:09:54 Sid Boyce wrote:
>> Using zypper update, some locally built packages are removed. It would
>> be nice to be able to be able to have an option so these would show up
>> with an option to not remove. The first time you see these will be
>> removed is when the dependencies are resolved and zypper starts
>> updating. These can be reinstalled without problems. There also is no
>> consistency, e.g on one box upgrading to 10.3-RC1 removed skype, on the
>> other it was kept.
>> Worth a bug report?
>
> That is because we disabled automatic locks for foreign vendor, now the
> behavior is:
> - a package with another vendor is not automatically selected as an upgrade
> candidate. Only if you select it manually.
> - We have locks.
>
> Edit /etc/zypp/locks, you can lock packages by capability, for example:
> amarok
> kde*
> foo > 1.0
>
> ZYpp will go to the list, and matching patterns will be locked (for
> installation or changes depending if they are installed or not)
>
>> 2007-09-29 02:18:47 <1> tindog(15965) [zypp::VendorAttr]
>> VendorAttr.cc(VendorAttr):128 Trusted Vendors: {
>
> Trusted vendors are not used, unless you enable foreign vendor locking again.
>
OK, I shall create that "locks" file as it doesn't exist at present.
Regards
Sid.
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