Comments on: On upgrading openSUSE with 3rd party repositories

By: Eliasse Diaite

Eliasse Diaite — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:20:11 +0000

Hi Duncan,

Thank you for the info on yast2-wagon. Anyway I would like to point out that the request I mentioned above disappeared since I switched to the snapshot-factory repository without installing the package yast2-wagon. My opinion is that this feature is intentionally disabled in the Factory tree in the early phases of the development. What do you think about that?

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By: duncan

duncan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:55:10 +0000

@Eliasse Diaite : yast2-wagon is something like zypper dup @Robin : yes, switching to the packages in the original repo should downgrade, and yes it will be in 11.2 @Volker : that has nothing to do with YaST but with the fact that the KDE maintainers have the same package name for gwenview, so the later is a newer version of the former. Anyway I don’t consider that usecase a priority.

By: Atri

Atri — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:35:26 +0000

Thanks for implementing a feature that seems to suggest that changing vendors for packages will no longer be the nightmare it is currently on 11.2 (RC1). I just wanted to know if a similar behaviour, and the orphaned packages group (unrelated to this, but recently marked as done on openFATE for yast2-qt-pkg again) will also be implemented in the corresponding gtk interfaces too (I see you have only mentioned yast2-qt-pkg).

In case I have not expressed myself clearly enough, let me just say this about this new implementation: WOW!

By: Volker

Volker — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:05:16 +0000

I hope that this means, that I am able to install different versions from different repos with YAST in the future. For example gwenview/kde3 and gwenview/kde4 at the same time, which is not possible with the yast gui in 11.1

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:04:41 +0000

oh.. and just another question. If I want to upgrade to lets say a new KDE repo, perform the package upgrade and decide later to go back to the original opensuse repository - is this possible? I guess that the cancel operation is only available within one session if this upgrade has not been yet committed/performed.

If this can be done by selecting the original opensuse repo and clicking on this upgrade switch, this would also mean that all other packages (not only the KDE ones but even libxine1 from packman etc.) will be switched back to the opensuse ones.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:54:20 +0000

So do we need 11.3/Factory for this feature or is this also committed for 11.2?

By: Eliasse Diaite

Eliasse Diaite — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:14:16 +0000

Very interesting article but I am missing the functionality of YaST similar to "zypper dup" although there is a YaST module called Factory update. In the past this feature used to work perfectly. Nowadays, after launching it you end with a message tell you that an update is only possible with the distribution CD/DVD. Any idea why?

Thanks a lot anyway for your explanations.