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Re: Updating with zypper

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On 2025-11-19 19:06, Malcolm wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:04:10 +0100
> R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> I've been using
>>      zypper patch --with-update
>> to maintain my system for a couple of years now.  Starting a few
>> weeks ago I occasionally get error messages such as:
>>
>> ************************ start of paste
>> ********************************
>>
>> Checking for file conflicts:
>> ......................................................................[error]
>> Detected 1 file conflict:
>>
>> File /sbin/init
>>     from install of
>>        systemd-254.27-150600.4.46.2.x86_64 (update-sle (15.6))
>>     conflicts with file
>>        /usr/sbin/init
>>     from install of
>>        systemd-254.27-150600.4.46.2.x86_64 (update-sle (15.6))
>>
>> File conflicts happen when two packages attempt to install files with
>> the same name but different contents. If you continue, conflicting
>> files will be replaced losing the previous content.
>> Continue? [yes/no] (no):
>>
>> *************************** end of paste ************************
>>
>> There are obviously two other ways I can go forward from this,
>> - Yast2 Online Update (I can't remember if I've tried that, but I
>> think I have)
>> - the standard kde tool for applying updates, the one normally set up
>> to run every 24 hours.  That works without complaint.
>>
>> Any suggestions as to why this is happening?
>> It happens on two systems, one of them is the one I updated to 16.0
>> before "updating" back to 15.6.  The other one has been on 15.6 since
>> I updated from 15.5 some time ago.
>>
>> I've tried "zypper patch", no change.
>> I've tried "zypper update", no change.
>> Obviously I'm running zypper as root, either via sudo (one system) or
>> via ssh root@<hostname> (second system).
>> I do not have any machine currently running 15.6 which does not have
>> this problem.
> 
> AFAIK it appears to be a update bug...
> <https://forums.opensuse.org/t/update-error-systemd-network/189826>
> 
> <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports> or check
> in case a bug is already reported.
> 

It seems his problem is different. He gets a file conflict, while cliviu 
gets a "the installed systemd-network-254.27-150600.4.43.3.x86_64 
requires 'systemd = 254.27-150600.4.43.3', but this requirement cannot 
be provided" error.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Updating with zypper R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2025-11-19 18:04 +0100
  Re: Updating with zypper "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-19 18:32 +0100
    Re: Updating with zypper R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2025-11-20 13:25 +0100
      Re: Updating with zypper "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-20 13:54 +0100
        Re: Updating with zypper R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2025-11-20 20:34 +0100
        Re: Updating with zypper "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-20 21:34 +0100
          Re: Updating with zypper R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2025-11-20 21:57 +0100
        Re: Updating with zypper R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2025-11-28 20:51 +0100
          Re: Updating with zypper "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-28 20:59 +0100
  Re: Updating with zypper Malcolm <malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid> - 2025-11-19 12:06 -0600
    Re: Updating with zypper "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-20 12:46 +0100

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