[packman] unsupported format (solved)

[Felix Miata]

Carlos E. R. composed on 2024-02-18 12:26 (UTC+0100):

> On 2024-02-18 04:07, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Masaru Nomiya composed on 2024-02-18 11:51 (UTC+0900):
>>   
>>> [FM] == Felix Miata has written:
>> 
>>> FM>  Apparently I hadn't upgraded enough packages to Packman versions:
>>> FM>  # zypper -v in libswresample3_9-4.4.4-150500.14.pm.1
>>> FM>  ...
>>> FM>  The following 9 packages are going to be upgraded:
>>> FM>    libavcodec58_134  4.4-150400.3.19.1 -> 4.4.4-150500.14.pm.1
>>> [...]
>>> FM>    libswscale5_9     4.4-150400.3.19.1 -> 4.4.4-150500.14.pm.1  SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> -> http://packman.links2linux.de
>>> FM>  ...
>>> FM>  CommitResult  (total 9, done 9, error 0, skipped 0, updateMessages 0)
>>> FM>  ...
>>> FM>  #
>>> FM>  Now at least MPV, Chromium and Falkon all play.
>>   
>>> Why version 4.4.4?
>> 
>> # zypper -v up
>> ...
>> The following 35 package updates will NOT be installed:
>> ...
>>    libavcodec58_134           4.4.4-150500.14.pm.1
>>    libavdevice58_13           4.4.4-150500.14.pm.1
>> ...
>> I picked the command zypper -v in libswresample3_9-4.4.4-150500.14.pm.1 based
>> entirely on the omissions list zypper provided.

> Just do the packman switch, periodically.

That's opposite of what I /do/ want. There was a recent weeks mailing list thread
with an @suse.com author address who explained that the need for packages from
Packman have been reduced, so I was hoping to keep the count in 15.5 to a minimum.
I find the frequency of updates coming from Packman highly annoying, so keep
Packman disabled except when doing an up so as to limit most zypper activity to
hitting only packages from standard repos.

# zypsei | grep ackm | wc -l
44
#
And this is from enabling only Packman /Essentials/. :~(

> zypper dup --from packman --allow-vendor-change

> or start YaST package manager, select the packman repo, click on " 
> Switch system packages to the version in this repository".

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