An interesting bug I see, worthy of an update itself, from the Online Update app is if I choose from Configuration | Online Update… followed by Configuratiion | Repositories… the latter screen shows no repositories whatsoever. But If I never choose Configuration | Online Update… and I just choose Configuratiion | Repositories… my repositories are clearly shown correctly. Also choosing Software Repositories from the YAST | Software screen correctly shows my repositories.
On 07/12/2012 05:36 AM, eldiener wrote:
> An interesting bug I see, worthy of an update itself, from the Online
> Update app is if I choose from Configuration | Online Update… followed
> by Configuratiion | Repositories… the latter screen shows no
> repositories whatsoever. But If I never choose Configuration | Online
> Update… and I just choose Configuratiion | Repositories… my
> repositories are clearly shown correctly. Also choosing Software
> Repositories from the YAST | Software screen correctly shows my
> repositories.
i am NOT sure what is going on…but, by following your “if I choose
from Configuration | Online Update… followed > by Configuratiion |
Repositories.” i can also make all panes of my YaST2 Patches window be
completely blank (mine should have a bunch of taboo patches)…
however, if i then click the “Cancel” button in the lower right corner,
and then relaunch YaST On Line Update, everything has returned to normal
(and waiting taboo patches are still there)…
you might try that.
to your other questions: yes, 11.4 is still being patched
here (in my 11.4) the following in a root terminal
tail -n20 /var/log/zypp/history
shows these flowed through the update repo on July 5 and 11:
On 2012-07-12 09:01, dd@home.dk wrote:
> On 07/12/2012 06:36 AM, caf4926 wrote:
>> 11.4 has just over a month of life remaining.
>
> i thought 11.4 would be supported until the actual (not planned) release of
> 12.2 plus two months…
What is the difference between an ‘update’ and a ‘patch’, and why would I not get updates as opposed to patches. My repository configuration seems normal to me. Do you mean that the repositories I have do not supply updates any more, just fixes for problems found ?
> What is the difference between an ‘update’ and a ‘patch’, and why would
> I not get updates as opposed to patches. My repository configuration
> seems normal to me. Do you mean that the repositories I have do not
> supply updates any more, just fixes for problems found ?
Yes, those repos do not change since the day 1 of release, so you do not
get “updates”. The “update” repo is special, and it gets patches. Patches
are a special type of updates, packaged in smaller rpms that only contain
the few files that get changed.
You get those updates by running “zypper patch” or YOU.
The policy openSUSE follows to create those patches is special. Packages,
with a few exceptions, are kept on the same version, only security issues
found are backported. This is more conservative and safer.
Any repo may create an associated update repo, but mostly they don’t. Thus
when you add a repo such as packman and want to get its updates, you run
instead a “zypper update”. But as you don’t have any such repos, this will
not work for you.
I never do zypper updates, I routinely apply patches instead. I manually
install updates for some packages that I want to, not as a general rule.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Trying ‘zypper patch’ found nothing. I then added a number of community repositories and still no updates show in the Online Update application. It just seems impossible that the previous release I am running, SUSE 11.4, than the current one has absolutely no updates.
> Trying ‘zypper patch’ found nothing. I then added a number of community
> repositories and still no updates show in the Online Update application.
> It just seems impossible that the previous release I am running, SUSE
> 11.4, than the current one has absolutely no updates.
You are using 11.4, are you not? This is what I get:
> cer@Telcontar:~> uname -a
> Linux Telcontar 2.6.37.6-0.20-desktop-cer #5 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 6 15:31:01 CEST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -q pm-utils
> pm-utils-1.4.1-5.32.1.x86_64
pm-utils was updated recently. Lets see what versions you get.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)