Comments on: Install Multiple Kernel Versions using the YaST Qt Package Manager https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/12/08/install-multiple-kernel-versions-using-the-yast-qt-package-manager/ Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: HuHa https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/12/08/install-multiple-kernel-versions-using-the-yast-qt-package-manager/#comment-1408 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:58:39 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2782#comment-1408 Uh — this would be confusing to exactly whom? To a newbie who just installed openSUSE for the very first time — but one who reads developers’ blogs? Get real.

And, no offense, if you are that clueless, better not mess with something as central to your system as the software management stack. Better be glad that missing dependency saved you from wrecking your system.

]]> By: Thomas Göttlicher https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/12/08/install-multiple-kernel-versions-using-the-yast-qt-package-manager/#comment-1384 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:53:10 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2782#comment-1384 You are right this isn’t a hidden feature in openSUSE 11.2 but the next release will contain it. If you want to use it now you need yast2-qt-pkg 2.18.19 and libzypp 6.26.3.

]]> By: Thomas Göttlicher https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/12/08/install-multiple-kernel-versions-using-the-yast-qt-package-manager/#comment-1383 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:37:08 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2782#comment-1383 Well, ‘zypper se’ searches for packages while clicking the icons in the packages selector installs multiple versions. The shown list of versions in the UI is similar to the zypper search.

]]> By: Thomas Göttlicher https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/12/08/install-multiple-kernel-versions-using-the-yast-qt-package-manager/#comment-1382 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:25:55 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2782#comment-1382 It’s submitted to YaST:Head. As soon as libzypp 6.26.3 is available YaST:Head will contain the latest version.
Libzypp figures out which packages are mutliversion packages by reading /etc/zypp/zypp.conf. As far as I know the database doesn’t know anything about multiversions.

]]> By: Anonymous https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/12/08/install-multiple-kernel-versions-using-the-yast-qt-package-manager/#comment-1381 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:51:23 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2782#comment-1381 Please make it clearer, upfront that this is development and future stuff coming in next release, not a tip to enabling a hidden 11.2 feature. Wew users get confused by official looking blog items, and end up adding Factory repo’s and get themselves into messes.

libzypp >= 6.26.3 is needed by yast2-qt-pkg-2.18.19-3.1.x86_64

If you want ppl to try it and test it against 11.2, then ALL the package upgrades need to be together in a repo.

]]> By: philip https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/12/08/install-multiple-kernel-versions-using-the-yast-qt-package-manager/#comment-1380 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:31:13 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2782#comment-1380 Is this the same as
#zypper se -s kernel-desktop?

]]> By: remur https://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/12/08/install-multiple-kernel-versions-using-the-yast-qt-package-manager/#comment-1378 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:56:01 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=2782#comment-1378 Yey, any time frame when this will hit a more official repository?
And manually editing /etc/zypp/zypp.conf is just a temporary solution I take it? Couldn’t this be determined through the database?

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