On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:23:50PM +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of an obvious reason "zypper update" would
> say there is nothing to do even when a newer version of a package has
> been added to a yum repo I have defined.
>
> Yes, I did a "zypper refresh" to force an update of the cache.
>
> And even more interesting, I can do a "zypper search whatever"
> and it shows me there is a newer "whatever" in the repo, it just
> doesn't think it needs to install it when I run an update.
>
> In a near identical repo constructed with similar new versions of
> "whatever"s a "yum update" on a fedora box happily downloads
> and installs the newer version.
>
> I'm sure there is something we don't understand about zypper
> and repo conventions, I just wish I knew what it was :-). Can
> anyone help?
Zypper by default updates Patches, the regular method of our update
delivery.
Use:
zypper update -t package
to update just-package-updates updates.
CIao, Marcus
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