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Handy little “zypper up” script

Posted on November 2, 2009, 4:35 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, opensuse11.1, zypper.

I run quite a few Opensuse (mostly 11.1 at the time of this writing) servers in what you might call “pseudo-production” mode.  For some of those servers, and especially for my test lab servers, I like to have them as up-to-date as possible by using some type of call to zypper in a cron job [...]

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What’s the deal with zypper in openSUSE 11?

Posted on July 7, 2008, 9:28 am, by Jeremy Pavlov, under intermediate, opensuse11, swUpdates, zypper.

The zypper tool in openSUSE 11 has been catching me off-guard. I guess previous versions were like this too, but for some reason I never noticed it or it never bothered me…. Anyway, here’s a tip or two about zypper‘s behavior… I’d been noticing that the “PackageKit” update applet in the GUI Panel seemed to [...]

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