Add option --minus-repo

[stoecker]

When doing a "yum update" there is an option --disablerepo, which can be used to disable certain repos which you don't want to update (i.e. when you want to check these manually).

Yast has an option "--plus-repo", but no "--minus-repo".

Please add an similar option to yum to disable certain repos for the time of the current operation.

Rationale: When you add a software specific repo (e.g. google chrome, jitsi, ...) they usually only contain newest version. It would be good to have an easy way to disable these for an update call and only install fresh security updates.

[arozyev]

If I understand your request properly, what you need is to add software specific repos that you'd like avoid checking automatically, with --disable-repo option or disable it later with modify-repo. Once you ready for an update (e.g. for security updates) enable them temporarily. In addition you can, for example, use zypper update -r <some-software-repo>

[stoecker]

I don't think so.

zypper --disable-repositories up

does disable ALL repositories. I'm searching for

zypper --disable-repositories=repo1,repo2 up

which still activates all the others, only not the two given ones.

Currently I do this with a temporary rename of the repo file in /etc/zypp/repos.d, but that's a crude workaround.

[stoecker]

Your solution with disabling repositories is another workaround, but compared to the yum solutions it is still only a workaround. I also tried that and it has other issues, because the repo is usually disabled. Essentially I normally want the repos enabled, only for certain commands I want them disabled, so I'm sure that nothing bad happens.