How to update?

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#1

Hi, i use suse 11.2 RC 1. The updater applet does not show any
available updates… but i get other stuff with zypper…
for example.

suse:~ # zypper list-patches
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

No updates found.

but, when i do a package list of updates… i get
a huge number of packages…

suse:~ # zypper list-updates | wc -l
1152

what to do? What is the best way to update?
why the update applet does not show all the updates?

#2

arkara wrote:

> Hi, i use suse 11.2 RC 1. The updater applet does not show any
> available updates… but i get other stuff with zypper…
> for example.
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> suse:~ # zypper list-patches
> Loading repository data…
> Reading installed packages…
>
> No updates found.
> --------------------
>
>
> but, when i do a package list of updates… i get
> a huge number of packages…
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> suse:~ # zypper list-updates | wc -l
> 1152
>
> --------------------
>
>
> what to do? What is the best way to update?
> why the update applet does not show all the updates?

Most sure because the new behavior of zypper which protects users from a
vendor change. This has been discussed on factory list not so much ago:

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-10/msg00405.html

So from 11.2 you should care not only about repo “priorities” but also
package “vendor”.

Read the message above to get a bypass for this.

Note: this only applies to packages that are “out” of the “stock repos”
(i.e., this affects to OBS, packam and so on, but has no effect
for /oss, /nonss repos…).

Greetings,

–
Camaleón

#3

I believe that this “vendor protection” is quite good.
i mostly want to have the official version installed even
if it is older than the packman version.

so the way to go is the following command?

zypper up
#4

Well right now on the RC there is not too much to update, there probably wont be too many updates between RC1 and the final.

#5

I have 1.17 GB for updates… maybe there will not be major
changes, but i still have to make the updates.

BTW: i come from kubuntu and while i find the whole distribution
ok, i feel that the update process is quite slow. And i mean
sssssssssslllllllooooooowwwwww…

#6

Dudes!, it is so slow…
i started some hours ago, and i am still at package
335 / 1153…
and no, i don’t have a slow connection…

#7

Hi
A slow mirror more likely (maybe even syncing as your downloading).

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.29-0.1-default
up 19 days 4:09, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.18

#8

Ok, just finished my update… and no it was not the mirrors fault
because at times it got up to 1MB/Sec apt is just way faster… anyway i am quite a happy user, i prefer quality over speed.
And openSuse has much more quality than most of the distributions
that i had tried over the past 3 years. It feels more mature now.