[Pacman Repo][Zypper] Suggest to change vendor to OpenSUSE OSS repo?

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When I was trying to update system, zypper asks to change vendor pacman → OpenSUSE. I decided to do not do that, cause maybe Pacman need to recompile packages and push updates, so I select to kept older version.

But the situation occur very long. I think maybe pacman would not release new packages. I have read some IP/patents got outdated. So what to do?

> LANG=C sudo zypper dup
[sudo] password for root: 
Retrieving repository 'Repozytorium główne (NON-OSS)' metadata ............................................................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'Repozytorium główne (NON-OSS)' cache .................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'Repozytorium główne (OSS)' metadata ................................................................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'Repozytorium główne (OSS)' cache .....................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'google-chrome' metadata ............................................................................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'google-chrome' cache .................................................................................................................................................[done]
Retrieving repository 'openSUSE:Tumbleweed' metadata ......................................................................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'openSUSE:Tumbleweed' cache ...........................................................................................................................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
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.
Computing distribution upgrade...
4 Problems:
Problem: problem with the installed gstreamer-plugins-libav-1.22.2-1699.86.pm.3.x86_64
Problem: problem with the installed libopencore-amrnb0-0.1.6-1699.1.pm.9.x86_64
Problem: problem with the installed libopencore-amrwb0-0.1.6-1699.1.pm.9.x86_64
Problem: problem with the installed libsox3-14.4.2-1599.7.pm.137.x86_64

Problem: problem with the installed gstreamer-plugins-libav-1.22.2-1699.86.pm.3.x86_64
 Solution 1: install gstreamer-plugins-libav-1.22.5-1.1.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
  replacing gstreamer-plugins-libav-1.22.2-1699.86.pm.3.x86_64 from vendor http://packman.links2linux.de
 Solution 2: keep obsolete gstreamer-plugins-libav-1.22.2-1699.86.pm.3.x86_64

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c/d/?] (c): 2

Problem: problem with the installed libopencore-amrnb0-0.1.6-1699.1.pm.9.x86_64
 Solution 1: install libopencore-amrnb0-0.1.6-1.3.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
  replacing libopencore-amrnb0-0.1.6-1699.1.pm.9.x86_64 from vendor http://packman.links2linux.de
 Solution 2: keep obsolete libopencore-amrnb0-0.1.6-1699.1.pm.9.x86_64

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c/d/?] (c): 2

Problem: problem with the installed libopencore-amrwb0-0.1.6-1699.1.pm.9.x86_64
 Solution 1: install libopencore-amrwb0-0.1.6-1.3.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
  replacing libopencore-amrwb0-0.1.6-1699.1.pm.9.x86_64 from vendor http://packman.links2linux.de
 Solution 2: keep obsolete libopencore-amrwb0-0.1.6-1699.1.pm.9.x86_64

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c/d/?] (c): 2

Problem: problem with the installed libsox3-14.4.2-1599.7.pm.137.x86_64
 Solution 1: install libsox3-14.4.2-6.2.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
  replacing libsox3-14.4.2-1599.7.pm.137.x86_64 from vendor http://packman.links2linux.de
 Solution 2: keep obsolete libsox3-14.4.2-1599.7.pm.137.x86_64

Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel [1/2/s/r/c/d/?] (c): 2

So we have had 4 packages with problem: gstreamer-plugins-libav, libopencore-amrnb0, libopencore-amrwb0, libsox3-14.4.
What to do? I would not lost support for some video/audio format or performance/power preserves.

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It seems that you didn’t update your machine for a long time…these 4 packages got removed from packman as they are no longer need to be provided by packman. So it is absolutely safe and recommended to switch them to openSUSE.

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Thank. I updated my machine, but not fully - I select always to keep previous versions.
Again, thanks.

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In this way you keep obsolete/unsecure/unsupported package versions on your system. It is recommended to carefully read the solver questions and decide accordingly. As the use of packman may cause trouble, it is necessary to do some basic research if you get a solver question (as example if the package got removed from packman or only the build infrastructure of packman is lagging behind…).