Hi All,
Installed the latest (greatest) version of openSuSE a few days back. Everything works smoothly, but I have a small issue with YaST.
With openSuSE 11.1, I used to update to the latest versions (KDE4, OpenOffice, Mozilla etc) by just right-clicking on the list of packages, and choosing the “update if newer version is available” option. This seems to be broken in openSuSE 11.2. What I do get at the top of the package list is an option to switch system packages to those in that particular repository - this isn’t ideal as the OSS and non-OSS repositories have the latest versions for some packages when compared to the buildservice.
Is anyone else having the same problem? Any suggestions to fix this?
Many thanks.
Does Package → All Packages → Update if newer version available do the same thing?
Otherwise, ‘zypper up’ should work. 
El Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:56:01 +0000, madgenius escribió:
> With openSuSE 11.1, I used to update to the latest versions (KDE4,
> OpenOffice, Mozilla etc) by just right-clicking on the list of packages,
> and choosing the “update if newer version is available” option. This
> seems to be broken in openSuSE 11.2. What I do get at the top of the
> package list is an option to switch system packages to those in that
> particular repository - this isn’t ideal as the OSS and non-OSS
> repositories have the latest versions for some packages when compared to
> the buildservice.
>
> Is anyone else having the same problem? Any suggestions to fix this?
Yes, it’s a known new “feature”. Basically, “zypper up” will not change
the packages’ vendor, by default.
It was discussed a bit in “factory” list:
[opensuse-factory] Anit-Vendor Change Extremism - Call for discussion
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-10/msg00405.html
You can apply the work-around described in that message.
Greetings,
–
Camaleón