zypper dup immediatelly after installation - 13.1

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Hi all,

I have just installed openSUSE 13.1, and ran

zypper ref && zypper up

After a reboot (new kernel), I ran

zypper dup

to see what it would show me.

To my surprise, the system told me that there were some available updates. How is this possible, since zypper dup syncs with the repos, and this is a fresh installation?

zypper -vv dup -D
Verbosity: 2
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.
Initializing Target
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-13.1-Oss
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-13.1-Update
Checking whether to refresh metadata for openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...
Force resolution: No
Computing upgrade...

The following 8 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  AdobeICCProfiles             2.0-150.1.6        noarch  openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss         openSUSE
  flash-player                 11.2.202.394-58.1  x86_64  openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss  openSUSE
  flash-player-kde4            11.2.202.394-58.1  x86_64  openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss  openSUSE
  gimp-help-en_GB              2.8.0-7.1.3        noarch  openSUSE-13.1-Oss             openSUSE
  patterns-openSUSE-kde4_pure  13.1-13.6.1        x86_64  openSUSE-13.1-Oss             openSUSE
  rng-tools                    4-7.1.2            x86_64  openSUSE-13.1-Oss             openSUSE
  ucode-intel                  20130906-6.2       x86_64  openSUSE-13.1-Update          openSUSE
  unrar                        5.0.11-2.1.6       x86_64  openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss         openSUSE


The following package is going to be reinstalled:
  release-notes-openSUSE  13.1.10-33.1  noarch  openSUSE-13.1-Update  openSUSE


8 new packages to install, 1 to reinstall.
Overall download size: 38.1 MiB. After the operation, additional 61.7 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): n

Thanks

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Those are no updates, since you haven’t had them installed before. Those are new packages.
They are recommended only, and most of them are from the Non-OSS repo (that’s why they haven’t been installed before).

I have no idea, why “zypper up” didn’t want to install them, but at least “zypper in” should.
Unless you have turned off the installation of recommended packages of course. There’s a switch in YaST and in /etc/zypp/zypp(er).conf .

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You rock! By default, installRecommends is set to “yes” in /etc/zypp/zypper.conf. After setting it to “no”, the new packages disappeared.

Thanks. :slight_smile: