From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 23/09/2021 14.44, Andrew wrote:   
   > I have four systems for various purposes, all of them are currently   
   > running Leap 15.3.  Updates are applied directly (the Software Updates   
   > process after logging in) or via a "zypper up" using ssh-as-root from   
   > another machine.   
   > This works fine for three of the systems, it is the other one which is   
   > confusing me.   
   >   
   > A remote "zypper up" just applied 15 updates, repeating it showed   
   > "Nothing to do".  The trouble is, the message:   
   >> The following 101 package updates will NOT be installed:   
      
   It is not a problem.   
   It just tells you.   
   There is nothing to do.   
      
   >   
   > A remote yast -> Online Update also finds nothing to do.   
      
   Obviously, as it is equivalent to "zypper patch", not "zypper up".   
      
   >   
   > Logging in there locally and letting Software Update run, it comes up   
   > with an additional 20 updates.  Applying these - with all the updates of   
   > affected packages and libraries - reduces the "will NOT be installed"   
   > list to just 5 entries, implying that the 20 + dependencies expanded to   
   > 96 - pretty much normal.   
   > Any ideas why "zypper up" ignored those 20/96 packages?  This behaviour   
   > is normal for this one machine.   
      
   Because the priorities and repositories you have defined mandate that   
   result.   
      
      
   For example suppose I add a repository named "things" that includes   
   WonderfulOffice, which I click on it to install, but it also includes   
   Thunderbird version 1999, brought from the future, which I do not click   
   on it.   
      
   "zypper up" will update WonderfulOffice, but not Thunderbird, because   
   you told the system you want TH from oss repo, not from "things".   
      
   Zypper will not switch "vendor" on your back.   
      
   --   
   Cheers,   
          Carlos E.R.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)