On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 12:23 -0500, Bryen wrote: > 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.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough, I was talking about the details view options. It wasn't quite that but once I looked, but its unrelated to the updater applet. > 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. :-) Its because the logic for what patches to show seems to be sprinkled it multiple places - basically its in each frontend individually afaict (ncurses, zypper, qt, gtk) and the gtk was not synced with the others. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336124 Test packages with just this fix are at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jproseve/ We'll roll this up with a larger yast-gtk update thats in the pipe -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
