Bug 408888

Summary:	system tray updater different from "sudo zypper up"
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Bernhard Koenig <b.a.koenig>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	E-mail List <zypp-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	dmacvicar, tgoettlicher
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	32bit
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description Bernhard Koenig 2008-07-14 13:04:25 UTC

The following may be intended, but I was still surprised by it: the system tray updater seems to propose different updates than the command line "sudo zypper up". For example, the recent "lame" upgrade showed up in the system tray updater but was not recognized by "sudo zypper up".

Comment 1 Bernhard Koenig 2008-07-14 13:06:11 UTC

I had the "Zypp Backend" in the system tray icon, by the way.

Comment 2 Jan Kupec 2008-07-14 13:16:38 UTC

Hi. Yes, this is intented. The applet show what 'zypper lu -t package -t patch' shows (depending on how it is configured). Then executes 'zypper in <packages-you-select>', not 'zypper up'.

Comment 3 Michael Schröder 2008-07-14 17:20:05 UTC

Hmm, why does it deal with packages? That breaks our patch concept somewhat.
And selecting packages from "zypper lu -t package" is dangerous, as the "zypper in" is done in forceResolv mode and "zypper lu" doesn't run the solver, so it doesn't detect if the update forces some bad changes.

Comment 4 Jan Kupec 2008-07-16 09:55:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #3 from Michael Schröder)
> Hmm, why does it deal with packages? That breaks our patch concept somewhat.

People wanted it. It is optional, you can configure the applet to deal with patches only (i don't know what is the default).

> And selecting packages from "zypper lu -t package" is dangerous, as the "zypper
> in" is done in forceResolv mode

The applet runs zypper in non-interactive mode, forceResolve=false is used there.

Comment 5 Jan Kupec 2008-07-16 09:57:24 UTC

... and it uses 'zypper in' instead of 'zypper up' because it allows you to select packages to update from the list, IIRC.

Comment 6 Thomas Göttlicher 2008-07-16 10:09:38 UTC

(In reply to comment #4 from Ján Kupec)
> People wanted it. It is optional, you can configure the applet to deal with
> patches only (i don't know what is the default).
Default is patches only. The option that enables packages mentions "for experts only".

Comment 7 Duncan Mac-Vicar 2008-07-20 15:59:10 UTC

Closing as invalid. We are working in making the patch/package issue more clear.