On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 12:39 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 09:38 -0500, Bryen wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 09:31 -0500, Ness, Todd wrote: > > > I believe the issues is why are we being told we have a mandatory update > > > of opera on a system we do not have opera installed on? > > > > Exactly! > > > > I sent my screenshot of the updater and results from running zypper lu > > to Andreas directly since I'm not supposed to post attachments to the > > list here. > > > > I also included the rpm -qa | grep Opera and rpm -qa | grep opera > > commands to prove that I do not have opera installed on my system. > > > > Saying that this mandatory update is needed for other components other > > than Opera doesn't help matters much. If we are indeed security > > conscious, then it is up to us to question the security of a security > > update. Calling it Opera when you don't have opera installed rings a > > heck of alot of bells. :-) > > It looks like yast-gtk is defaulting to showing "all available patches" > instead of only applicable packages, we're poking it. > > -JP > -- > JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Novell, Inc. > It does raise some interesting questions, and if I can add to the "poking" a bit here. I changed the default preference in the applet to treat Recommended Updates as "Additional" rather than "Mandatory".
Now I get an orange sun-shaped icon notification rather than the red triangle notification. Fair enough. But the Opera update is still listed in the update details. To me, that's a separate issue from the default preference issue. I don't think updater should list any updates that don't apply to anything that doesn't exist on the current user's system. Also, zypper lu shows a different list of updates, as Todd indicated earlier in his posting, and I'm seeing the same list on my system. Since the updater and zypper use the same library and scan the same enabled repositories, why is the result different? Just posing these questions, not trying to be challenging or antagonistic. :-) -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
