On 12/21/06, Craig Millar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
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Benjamin Weber
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