I’m having to use the terminal update. Yast and the system tray update aren’t working right. I’m getting this same or similar info on every update(suse 11.4).
zypper up
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
The following package updates will NOT be installed:
gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs gstreamer-0_10-plugin-hal
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good k3b
libgstapp-0_10-0 libgstinterfaces-0_10-0 libquicktime libwavpack1
mjpegtools taglib
Nothing to do.
By default, zypper won’t allow an update to change repositories with the update command. From the wiki:
“zypper up” updates the packages if a newer version is available but will not change the vendor (Note: The whole build service currently has the same vendor). “zypper dup” will try to sync your currently installed packages with the ones available from (all) the repos you have enabled. This means it will also downgrade packages if your installed version is newer than the one available in the repo.
This is helpful for when you want to retain packages from Packman, for instance.
as the above post said, ‘zypper dup’ will upgrade and install the files listed in the part of your message that says “the following package updates will NOT be installed”.
Be careful about blindly running ‘zypper dup’ though, as it might upgrade a lot more than just the packages listed, and pay attention to what packages zypper says are changing repositories, etc so that you don’t get unintended upgrades / downgrades.
zypper dup
Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs gstreamer-0_10-plugin-hal k3b
libgstapp-0_10-0 libgstinterfaces-0_10-0 libquicktime libwavpack1
mjpegtools taglib
The following packages are going to be downgraded:
libmad0 libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0
The following package is going to be reinstalled:
w32codec-all
The following packages are going to change vendor:
gstreamer-0_10-plugin-gnomevfs
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugin-hal
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
k3b
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
libgstapp-0_10-0
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
libgstinterfaces-0_10-0
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
libquicktime
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
libwavpack1
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
mjpegtools
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
taglib
openSUSE -> http://packman.links2linux.de
9 packages to upgrade, 3 to downgrade, 1 to reinstall, 9 to change
vendor.
Overall download size: 21.4 MiB. After the operation, additional
798.0 KiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y):
After the expalnations from the others you should be able to recommend to yourself what to do. One does normaly do only a dup when one changes openSUSE level. Not within the lifetime of one level (but I can imagine osther usage). The fact that it will change 9 packages to other vendors might bring you to the conclusion that you do not want this… But it is you that decides.
I generally prefer packages from Packman repository (personal preference), but I agree that one should use “dup” with caution. You can choose to manually install those packages using install (in) instead, or update strictly from a specific repository with (I think):
sudo zypper up --repo repository alias
I can’t check this at the moment, unfortunately, since I’m not on my openSUSE box.