Re: [opensuse] Re: zypper: How to dist-upgrade specific packages?

On Tuesday September 29 2009 6:19:46 am Joachim Schrod wrote:
I discovered that for vendor changes, zypper install will do what I
want.

It won't do architecture changes (i686->i586), though. Any idea how
to allow that?

I don't think people are so far following what you're saying. I think I have
an idea, but tell me if I'm wrong.

When you're doing an update of multiple packages, or merely repeating the same
update on multiple machines, you're asked over and over again about the
architecture changes for each package and you're hoping there's a way to
either do a sort of "yes to all" thing or specify beforehand to silence
certain messages and act as if "yes" was chosen, right?

If so, there's no simple way to do it. There's nothing built in, so you'd
have to come up with a fancy shmancy shell script of some kind that watches
the output and responds. I know it can be done, but it'd be a headache for me
to figure out (if I have no deadline, I'll look at a man page for something
and wind up reading beyond what I was looking up and continuing to other man
pages - this lasts for way too long).

Anyway, so that's what it is as far as I know. I hope someone corrects me.
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