Bug 746073

Summary:	When adding addon product with wrong architecture, no error or warning is raised, operation just silently fails
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Martin Pluskal <mpluskal>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Ladislav Slezák <lslezak>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	holgi, locilka, ma, mpluskal
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	SLES 11
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Attachments:	y2logs

Description Martin Pluskal 2012-02-09 11:22:42 UTC

Where:
iSeries ppc64, SLES-11-SP2-Build0747
Steps to reproduce:
1) Run yast2
2] Select Software/Add-on products
3) Click add/http/edit complete url
4) Enter path to online repository (in this case http://dist.suse.de/install/SLP/SLE-11-SP2-SDK-LATEST/ia64/DVD1/ )
5) Next, Agree to licence terms
6) Everything than seems to proceed normally, until I am returned to Installed Add-on products menu, where I don't see any product added.
Expected results:
Upon adding product/repository with wrong architecture, error should be raised. It is not clear what happened when everything seems to proceed normally.

Comment 1 Martin Pluskal 2013-02-04 10:03:14 UTC

Created attachment 523186 [details]
y2logs

Comment 2 Martin Pluskal 2013-02-04 10:04:47 UTC

Comment on attachment 523186 [details]
y2logs

The isssue is still present on SLES11SP3 alpha3 - this time I tried to add ppc sdk to x86_64 machine.

Comment 3 Anja Stock 2013-03-05 10:30:10 UTC

Jiri, is this bug properly assigned? Did you meanwhile find the time to look into this?

Comment 4 Ladislav Slezák 2016-03-31 08:48:25 UTC

The main problem is that libzypp hides the incompatible packages, YaST cannot even know that there some packages for another architectures at the add-on repository.


Michael, is there any way how Yast could detect a repository intended for other architecture?

I know it's a bit tricky as you might have e.g. an addon with noarch + ia64 packages where the x86_64 packages could be already included in the base product or would not be needed at all so you would need only the noarch packages on x86_64.

But at least we could display a hint or a warning that the added addon looks suspicious if there are packages for other architectures but not for the current one.


(This sounds like duplicate to me, IIRC there already was a similar bug report, but I cannot find it now...)

Comment 5 Michael Andres 2016-04-04 15:21:11 UTC

(In reply to Ladislav Slezák from comment #4)
> Michael, is there any way how Yast could detect a repository intended for
> other architecture?

AFAIK repo metadata do not contain a hint about the 'intended architectures'.
You could display a hint if the repo contains just noarch packages?

Comment 6 Lukas Ocilka 2016-11-30 15:57:20 UTC

Switching it to "openSUSE" to make it accessible for external people.

Comment 7 Ladislav Slezák 2019-02-05 08:45:38 UTC

Sorry, no time to implement this...