Bug 278511

Summary:	Yast System repair tool does complain about version conflict
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Casual J. Programmer <casualprogrammer>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 4plus
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Screenshot of Message "different product installed" yast2 logs

Description Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-26 10:16:58 UTC

After a "clean" install from openSuSE 10.3 alpha4 DVD and all available updates running yast2 repair and selecting "Verify installed software" a message box is displayed, claiming repair tool is run from a different version. ( See screenshot for details )

Comment 1 Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-26 10:17:48 UTC

Created attachment 142420 [details]
Screenshot of Message "different product installed"

Comment 2 Jiří Suchomel 2007-06-06 13:23:12 UTC

I cannot reproduce it (= works for me).
Please run again with full debugging (Y2DEBUG=1 yast2 repair) and attach the log files just after you see the message (logs will be huge).

Comment 3 Jiří Suchomel 2007-07-30 14:17:54 UTC

Hello, were you able to test it?

Comment 4 Casual J. Programmer 2007-07-30 15:23:22 UTC

Good you reminded me, I almost forgot about this issue :-)

Actually it is still the same:

After performing a "clean" install from alpha6 DVD and several updates ( last big one last night /etc/SuSe-release is now at alpha7 )

"Y2DEBUG=1 yast2 repair" displays exactly the same message as in attachment 142420 [details].

Comment 5 Casual J. Programmer 2007-07-30 15:26:05 UTC

Created attachment 154037 [details]
yast2 logs

Comment 6 Jiří Suchomel 2007-07-30 15:36:10 UTC

Well, but that's correct behaviour. I thought the products were the same or that the screenshot is showing some strange name of theproduct, but nothing from this is true.

-> invalid

(You might say that alpha6 and alpha7 are of the same product, but I woudln't take that point. Only released products count here, and e.g. 10.3 is definitelly different product from 10.2)

Comment 7 Casual J. Programmer 2007-07-31 06:09:51 UTC

Now, if that is so, this "tool" should be removed completely, as it creates a false sense of safety.

If I understand you correctly, this will only work directly upon installation from media. 

Since _every_ real life installation is living, after a few ( maybe even a single ) updates it will cease to work.

Comment 8 Jiří Suchomel 2007-07-31 06:15:56 UTC

No. With real life installations, you install updates regularly which doesn't mean you are changing the product version. If you upgrade to new version of product, you can use repair function of that new function.

Using "factory" and updating from alphas to betas doesn't count as real life installation; that intended for testing only.