2007/12/18, Bjørn Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> tir, 18.12.2007 kl. 07.03 -0600, skrev David C. Rankin:
> > Listmates,
> >
> >       I enjoy working from the cli and like zypper, but I'm stumped as to 
> > why
> > zypper lu or zypper up shows no updates available while Yast -> software
> > management -> packages -> all packages -> update if newer shows 500M of
> > updates?
> >
> >       When running zypper, it goes through and refreshes each repo the same
> > as yast does, so I would expect it to list all updates as well. It doesn't.
> >
> >       Why does zypper go through each repo if it doesn't get the updates 
> > from
> > each repo? Is there a way I can make it do that? Why is zypper missing
> > the updates yast finds.
>
> Did you try to read the: zypper lu --help
>
> Try this
>
> zypper lu -t package
> and
> zypper up -t package
>
> lu and up only deals with patches by default
>
> Bjørn
>
> For the future googlers, here is the output from zypper lu --help
>
> embla:~ # zypper lu --help
> list-updates [options]
>
> List all available updates
>
>   Command options:
> -t, --type <type>   Type of resolvable (package, patch, pattern,
> product) (default: patch)
> -r, --repo <alias>  List only updates from the repository specified by
> the alias.
>     --best-effort   Do a 'best effort' approach to update, updates to a
> lower than latest-and-greatest version are also acceptable.
>
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Hi, I'm new to zypper too.
According to the differences between using zypper lu/up and zypper
lu/up -t package, which one do you suggest to use in order to update a
system?

Valerio
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