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|    Carlos E. R. to Paul R Schmidtbleicher    |
|    Re: Locking Software from Updates    |
|    12 Oct 21 22:39:47    |
      From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 12/10/2021 18.39, Paul R Schmidtbleicher wrote:       > This post is dealing specifically with "dosbox" under Tumbleweed. My       > earlier version of       > 0.74.3 works far better with (what used to be) Geos/Emsemble than the new       > version 0.77.x. I tried locking my old version under Yast Software       > assuming LOCKING could not be overridden except by me. I do want other       > Tumbleweed updates, but when I accept them, they also update "dosbox"       > even as the "Lock symbol" remains on it. This is my problem.              Not possible. Something else must be going on.              >       > (1) Is there a better answer?       > (2) I thought about changing the name of my 0.74.3 version of "dosbox,"       > but noticed in the file list given under "Yast Software" that the       > executable in /bin isn't even listed. There may be others??? Would this       > work or does Yast keep track of name changes and it would still be       > updated?              No, the packages have names inside.                     zypper ll              should list the locks.              And              cat /etc/zypp/locks                     --       Cheers,        Carlos E.R.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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