zypper dup usage includes unwanted/unnecessary packages to be installed

I have a group of Xen virtualised servers running very minimal installs of openSuSE 11.4 that I want to upgrade to 12.1 and then 12.2 using zypper dup.

When I run, zypper dup -D --no-recommends, it says it will install quite a few new packages that I don’t want or require such as MozillaFirefox. Does anyone know why it wants to install these extraneous packages and/or a way to stop it doing so.

Regards

Matthew

are you saying that there is no MozillaFirefox (or the other unwanted
packages) on the 11.4 installs, but zypper wants to install them on
12.1 anyway?

check if anything accidentally got installed into the 11.4 with these


rpm -qa | grep -i firefox
cat /var/log/zypp/history | grep irefox


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Yes, that’s correct.

I eventually found the cause of the Firefox install. The packages libproxy1-pacrunner-mozjs, mozilla-js192, mozilla-nspr had been installed through some earlier dependency and removing those stopped firefox appearing in the NEW packages to be installed. It looks as though I shall have to dig a bit deeper into some other unnecessary packages already installed to see if I can winnow the list down a bit.

Matthew

> The packages libproxy1-pacrunner-mozjs, mozilla-js192, mozilla-nspr had been installed through some earlier dependency and removing those stopped firefox appearing in the NEW packages to be installed.

kinda what i was thinking (something in 11.4 was pulling in firefox)…


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