Yast: which priority to set to get automatic updates

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Hello everyone

I am running on 11.2 and i have added some repositories, like Packman, KDE 4.4 Factory, KDE 4.4 Community.

I would like to have this packages automatically updated which seems not to happen. If I look into software management every now and then, I always have to “switch system packages” to get the updates via the the updated applet.

So I was wondering, if it could be due to a wrong priority for those repositories? Is a high or a low priority the point where the applet is looking from which repo to update?
If not, what is this priority used for?

Thanks

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YaST>Configure online update

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Is a high or a low priority the point where the applet is looking from which repo to update?

AFAIU, the updater tool only checks the official openSUSE repos. I only ever use zypper to upate packages.

I’ll leave it others to explain the priority behaviour, as I believe this has changed with openSUSE 11.2.

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I don’t use the updater applet. Once I’ve told the installer to switch to a repo, the next time it will include that repo, when I do 'Packages - All Packages - Update if newer version available. This also gives me the choice to skip updates.

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Ditto, me too.