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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
Yes, I also use MESA, but that only happens when you use the
--allow-vendor-changeoption. 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.So how did you replace the mesa version. Every documentation I see seems to tell of the --allow-vendor-change option
Sorry for not answering earlier, I think there was a problem with Beehaw.
Anyway, yes, I also use Packman and I do not have the
--allow-vendor-changeflag enabled because it caused more problems for me the last time i had TW installed. I prefer to wait until the repos are synced and then update. :)How did you switch mesa version without using the
--allow-vendor-changeflag. Did you manually uninstall the mesa packages shipped by opensuse and then switch them with mesa packages from packman? Vendor change is the only method recommended everywhere and no other methods are discussed so I am curious as to how you manage without it. Also how do track that the repos are synced. I have to manually check the packman website to see if the packages have been updated to version that opensuse is shipping. Do you do the same?Also sorry for the late reply
From what I remember, I only used
opi codecsand that's it. What I meant with the vendor change, was that I never run it nor allow it.When you run
zypper dup, it throws you some errors telling you that the versions are different or aren't in the official repo, which means that you should wait until there are no errors. Unless there was an official vendor change and you have no other alternative (and it's not really common) then you have to install those specific packages from the official repo.Did you add the packman repo to the repository list before running
opi codecs¿?Edit : Never mind that was a stupid question