Conflicts b/w Packman packages and openSUSE update packages

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I have currently enabled openSUSE OSS, NON-OSS, Updates, Packman and KDE Factory repositories.

As an example I have kaffeine-0.8.6 installed.

rpm -qi kaffeine
Name        : kaffeine                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.8.6                             Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany                                                                                      
Release     : 54.1                          Build Date: Sat 07 Jun 2008 08:06:23 AM IST      
Install Date: Tue 10 Jun 2008 05:56:06 PM IST      Build Host: alsa2.suse.de                 
Group       : Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Players   Source RPM: kaffeine-0.8.6-54.1.src.rpm
Size        : 2562824                          License: GPL v2 or later
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Sat 07 Jun 2008 08:14:03 AM IST, Key ID a84edae89c800aca
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL         : http://kaffeine.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Xine-Based Multimedia Player

But there is an update for Kaffeine from the Packman repository


sudo zypper lu -t package              
Reading installed packages...                               
S | Repository                  | Name                              | Version                   | Arch  
--+-----------------------------+-----------------------------------+---------------------------+-------
v | Packman Repository          | audacity                          | 1.3.5-0.pm.3              | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | blender                           | 2.47-0.pm.7               | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | brasero                           | 0.8.1-0.pm.1              | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | dejavu                            | 2.26-0.pm.1               | noarch
v | Packman Repository          | dvb                               | 1.1.0_CVS20080331-20.pm.1 | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | gstreamer-0_10                    | 0.10.20-42.pm.1           | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | gstreamer-0_10-devel              | 0.10.20-42.pm.1           | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | gstreamer-0_10-doc                | 0.10.20-42.pm.1           | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base       | 0.10.20-42.pm.1           | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-devel | 0.10.20-42.pm.1           | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good       | 0.10.10-42.pm.1           | i586  
v | Packman Repository          | gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra | 0.10.10-42.pm.1           | i586
v | Packman Repository          | gstreamer-0_10-pulse              | 0.9.7-42.pm.1             | i586
v | Packman Repository          | kaffeine                          | 0.8.7-0.pm.1              | i586
v | Packman Repository          | kaffeine-gstreamer                | 0.8.7-0.pm.1              | i586

Now since there is a change in the “Vendor” of the installed packages and the update package that is available, zypper is un-able to update Kaffeine(there are other such packages)

sudo zypper up -t package
Reading installed packages...
Nothing to do.

After all the boring information provided above, let me get to my questions :wink:

  1. Is it safe to consume update ignoring the fact that the installed package and the update package is from different repositories? Will it break anything?

  2. Is there a way to update all these packages at once using command line zypper? Currently I can do that by manually resolving the conflict by running “sudo zypper up -t package <package_name>”. But can I do it all at once?

  • Thejaswi Raya
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You should be using kaffeine from Packman anyway! In fact all your mult-media should be packman.
Only libdvdcss will be from vlc, even vlc player should be from packman
change vendor!

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Thanks caf4926 for the reply. I will consume the updates from PackMan.

Also what about using zypper to consume all such updates? Like I mentioned “sudo zypper up -t package” doesnt work. I can consume the updates in YaST, but I anyday prefer command line over GUI.

  • Thejaswi Raya
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zypper info here:
Zypper/Usage/11.0 - openSUSE

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I had already gone through the man pages and also the online zypper usage page. It doesnt have what I am looking for. Anyways, I will have to use the GUI(YaST) only for this corner case. That should be fine, wont break my head too much on this. But thanks for the help.