Comments on: Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: New Package Management

By: peeved

peeved — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:31:40 +0000

just write a yast plugin for yum and be done with it …

Sick of .. YoU won’t do this, zypper wont do that, Software Management falls into a memory hole…. whilst big money in development terms seems to be spent on compiz /beryl and glorified eye candy the “Meat and Veg” of the disto like package management/system stability/repository clarity is falling by the way side. You could probably get a few good C programmers if you traded in a few of your gui dev people……

I’ts been flakey since suse 9.2, so far I’m up to 10.3 GM … yeah GM. Greatly Mangled, your touting 11 in 60 something days when 10.3 is still actually beta qality. Darwin ports is starting to look effective compared this dogs breakfast.Its cool to want to surf, but earn the cred first, learn to paddle.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:11:48 +0000

zypper is the tool called by your desktop online update notification applet, you can configure how often/if it shall do update checks.

By: sina

sina — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:56:01 +0000

Every version upgrade in suse introduces a new annoying piece of software.
In 10.1 and 10.2 ZMD used to take up 99% of CPU time for several minutes on every single start up, and now wow it is zypper!
Every time I boot my machine this zypper thing is running for one to two minutes eating up CPU cycles and spinning Hard Drive like crazy.

And who said SuSE boot time is twice faster in this version? yes the login screen comes faster but the time when the system is really at your service
is same as before.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:10:14 +0000

No I had that enabled in 10.2 and it would still not find any updates. Have http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/ enabled for 10.3 beta 2 and 3, and it still never found any updates.

By: Francis Giannaros

Francis Giannaros — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:48:00 +0000

You probably don’t have the _update_ repository (the one with patches, etc) enabled, which is http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/ on openSUSE 10.2. The updater will only show _updates_ and not package upgrades.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:29:32 +0000

Is there any reason why the openSUSE Updater doesn’t work. I had this problem with it on 10.2, and in 10.3 beta 1, 2, and 3. All the repositories are correctly listed, but if I check for updates with the Updater applet, it says there are none. If I go into Yast’s software management I can see that there are a lot of updates.

Any idea’s on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

By: lws

lws — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:24:59 +0000

Thank you very much by the article!
A very good work!!

By: heksys

heksys — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:38:27 +0000

It’s about time they got rid off that damm ZEN-UPDATER. I can’t wait for 10.3 to get here it’s going to be nice…

By: apokryphos

apokryphos — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:44:43 +0000

Please do file bug reports as specified on http://bugs.opensuse.org Doing so will ensure that these problems aren’t there in the final release

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:40:59 +0000

I’m not convinced of the “better dependency checking” since I had a hard time to update from 10.3-a7 to 10.3-b2.
There were dependency conflicts with involved packages cvs, tclsh, libblt and others.
This could’nt be resolves by selecting thesse packages for deletion.
At some point yast pretended that there are still dependency conflicts, but the list was empty!