Re: [opensuse] Correct way to update an 11.4 install

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:57, Doctor Who <whodoctor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is the 'correct' way to keep an 11.4 install up-to-date?  'zypper
up' 'zypper dup' 'zypper up -t package' ?

I have the following repos enabled and all have a priority of 99:

zypper sl
#  | Alias                   | Name                  | Enabled |
Refresh | Type
---+-------------------------+-----------------------+---------+---------+-------
1  | GNOME3:STABLE           | GNOME3:STABLE         | No      | Yes
 | rpm-md
2  | KDE:Extra_1             | KDE:Extra             | Yes     | Yes
 | rpm-md
3  | NVIDIA_Repository       | NVIDIA Repository     | Yes     | Yes
 | rpm-md
4  | Packman_Repository      | Packman Repository    | Yes     | Yes
 | rpm-md
5  | openSUSE-11.4-Debug     | openSUSE-11.4-Debug   | No      | Yes
 | yast2
6  | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss   | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | Yes     | Yes
 | yast2
7  | openSUSE-11.4-Oss       | openSUSE-11.4-Oss     | Yes     | Yes
 | yast2
8  | openSUSE-11.4-Source    | openSUSE-11.4-Source  | No      | Yes
 | yast2
9  | openSUSE-11.4-Update    | openSUSE-11.4-Update  | Yes     | Yes
 | rpm-md
10 | openSUSE:11.4:Contrib_1 | openSUSE:11.4:Contrib | Yes     | Yes
 | rpm-md

'zypper up -t package' gives the following (whare are some updates NOT
going to be installed?):

The following package updates will NOT be installed:
 audacity gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly linphone

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
 dhcpcd gxine kde3-kaffeine kde3-kaffeine-lang libgstbasevideo-0_10-0
libgstphotography-0_10-0 libgstsignalprocessor-0_10-0 libgstvdp-0_10-0
libxine1-codecs postfix

10 packages to upgrade.
Overall download size: 5.6 MiB. No additional space will be used or
freed after the operation.


'zypper dup' gives the following:

The following packages are going to be upgraded:
 audacity dhcpcd gxine kde3-kaffeine kde3-kaffeine-lang
libgstbasevideo-0_10-0 libgstphotography-0_10-0
libgstsignalprocessor-0_10-0 libgstvdp-0_10-0 libxine1-codecs postfix

The following package is going to change vendor:
 audacity  openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de


11 packages to upgrade, 1 to change vendor.
Overall download size: 8.8 MiB. After the operation, additional 832.0
KiB will be used

Thanks for any advice/guidance on this!

You added the Packman repository, probably because you wanted to
replace the broken packages from openSUSE with working ones from
Packman. So in this case it seems like you should do zypper dup which
is proposing to replace the broken packages with Packman packages.

Then in the future you can just do zypper up and it will update all
your current packages with the newest version from the same vendor
(repository)

zypper up = update current packages
zypper dup = distribution update, recalculates dependencies
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