requesting refresher course 101 for repo choices

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I thought I had a handle, admittedly limited, on certain choices of Repositories and why I chose them. For example after using the Repositories set up for me by the DVD install and thinking I didn’t need to do any more to keep myself updated I then investigated
SDB:KDE repositories

and decided I would try

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/

After zypper arring; zypper reffing; and zypper upping there were no updates.

I thought this a bit strange and had a look in the naked repository via my internet web browser and - just as an example - I could see kcm_sddm-5.5.0-40.1.x86_64.rpm in the repo but zypper information on my installed kcm_sddm shows this version number:

Repository: openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update
Name: kcm_sddm
Version: 5.4.3-4.1

Here is my current repo list:

# zypper lr -d
# | Alias               | Name                              | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                                             | Service        
--+---------------------+-----------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------        
1 | extra               | extra                             | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                        |                
2 | frameworks          | frameworks                        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                  |                
3 | infinality          | infinality                        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/nick31:/INFINALITY-ULTIMATE/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ |                
4 | nvidia              | nvidia                            | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.1/                                                   |                
5 | packman             | packman                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/                              |                
6 | repo-non-oss        | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Non-Oss        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/non-oss/                               |                
7 | repo-oss            | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Oss            | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.1/repo/oss/                                   |                
8 | repo-update         | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update         | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/oss/                                              |                
9 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-Leap-42.1-Update-Non-Oss | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.1/non-oss/                                          |

I notice, no dozer me, that all have a priority of 99.

Any lectures/advice/pointing out of errors of ways welcomed.

Best wishes

](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/)

2

I don’t change any from 99
But simply use the switcher option in software management

3

That did it.

Many thanks

4

Does changing from 99 still work? Else, what happens if one does change from 99?

5

It does work, but what for? What do you think should happen?

There is normaly no gain from changing there. Vendor stickiness will prevent from installing a package from another vendor even if it is “newer”. Thus you when you want to change vendor yourself (like having packages from Packman rather then openSUSE OSS/non-OSS and from some KDE: rather then openSUSE OSS/non-OSS) you use zypper dup from that repo, or do the switch in YaST > sOftware > Software Management > View > Repositories > select the repo you want to switch to > click the “change system packages …” at the top of the list. From then on only updates from that repo will be installed and that is what you want I assume. No need for priorities at all.

6

Was just curious, as that was the method used for quite a few versions of openSUSE.

7

Long, long ago. :wink: