Bug 217489

Summary:	zmd is started although not needed (opensuseupdater with zypp-backend)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Forgotten User --EoyBps8f <forgotten_--EoyBps8f>
Component:	Zenworks	Assignee:	E-mail List <zlm-code10-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jawaad Tariq <jtariq>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke, hugo.costelha
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2006-11-02 18:59:54 UTC

As I take it from bug 216097, the new opensuseupdater with zypp-backend is meant to be lighter then the ZENWorks + zen-updater. If so, it does not make sense to start zmd on boot.

"opensuse updater has also a zypp backend. This was done in reaction of
community request that lot of people don't have the use case or need to run
Zenworks daemon, so the zypp backend access the system directly and show
available patches"

According to the above zmd should not be started by default.

Comment 1 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2006-11-10 16:07:55 UTC

In beta2 it got even better. Both zen-updater and opensuseupdater are started by default. What's the purpose of having two update-applets in the tray by default? Especially since opensusewatcher was supposed to get rid of zen-updater and zmd for people who do not need it.

Comment 2 Silviu Marin-Caea 2006-11-13 12:12:50 UTC

Is opensuseupdater supposed to be ready?  It reports 0 updates, while zen-updater reports 5.  If it's not ready it should not be started by default.  Having another release with an update "story" would suck.  The default update system should be just there and just work, this time.  If people don't like the default system because of whatever reason, then can replace it, but the reason must absolutely not be "it doesn't work".

Comment 3 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2006-11-14 09:18:19 UTC

Those 5 updates you see in zen-updater, are those patches, or updated packages from factory? opensuseupdater is supposedly designed to only show patches, if the zypp-backend is used (default). It should apparently show the updates too, if the zenworks-backend is used, yet I am not sure about the latter.

Also, there has to be an update-source in YaST, not just zen.

Comment 4 Stanislav Visnovsky 2007-09-27 11:00:00 UTC

We are not going to address this issue. openSUSE 10.3 does not contain the Zenworks stack.