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Packman repository usage best practices on Opensuse Tumbleweed? (lemmy.one)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When using software and the codecs from the packman repo, what are the best practices associated with the updating and maintaince of these packages and the system in general. Do I have to wait for sometime before updating using dup or can I use the packman modules of mesa with updated versions of the mesa modules provided officially¿? Are their dependcy issues for software sourced from packman.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use it, sometimes all it happens is that I have to wait a couple days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you also use the mesa pacakge from packman repos. Will zypper automatically use the packman package of mesa when updating if you do the vendor change for mesa from official repos to packman. I am asking because when I tried TW, different versions of packages in mesa were somehow simultaneously installed after a dist-upgrade and mesa was broken

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I also use MESA, but that only happens when you use the --allow-vendor-change option. I don't, I prefer to wait until packman is in sync with the openSUSE repos. I had that problem previously, before reinstalling TW and I didn't like having multiple packages out of sync and sometimes repeated, I like to see them as a bigger package that has to be updated at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

So how did you replace the mesa version. Every documentation I see seems to tell of the --allow-vendor-change option