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

On Tuesday 29 September 2009 13:13:58 Joachim Schrod wrote:
Michael S. Dunsavage writes:

Hi, thanks for your answer.

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?

Try zypper up <package>

This will ask interactive questions, which is tedious to answer for
dozens of questions on several systems. As mentioned in my first email
in this thread, I'm looking for a way to install them without the
manual interaction required for each and every package.

You could try this:

zypper up --force-resolution --auto-agree-with-licenses --repo $PACKMANS_NUMBER "*"

This forces only upgrades of packages that are available from Packman.
It will auto-accept any licences, although I'm not sure I recall seeing
any Packman packages that do need a licence acceptance. It also appears
that it will change vendors as required.

If you're not sure about this, you can also add the --dry-run option
before the "*" and it will do everything but actually install the
packages.

Finally, $PACKMANS_NUMBER can be found by using:

zypper sl


Regards,
David Bolt

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