Bug 900853

Summary:	YaST package manager not respecting "installRecommends=no"
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Forgotten User dH2Y-YXEfD <forgotten_dH2Y-YXEfD>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Martin Vidner <mvidner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2 - High	CC:	forgotten_dH2Y-YXEfD, gs, mvidner
Version:	13.2 Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://trello.com/c/fc9pedpd
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Attachments:	current and old y2log files

Description Forgotten User dH2Y-YXEfD 2014-10-12 22:55:05 UTC

Hi there,

I have configured YaST2 to not install recommends for already installed packages, and /etc/zypp/zypper.conf to "installReccomends=no". However, when upgrading packages, it keeps trying to install recommended *patterns* inside patterns. For example, I have the "patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office" pattern installed, but not the "patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office_opt" pattern. However, when I update the packages, it tries to install the patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office_opt pattern with all of its dependancies, which I don't want. It appears to do this because patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office_opt is a recommended dep of patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office. It should respect my settings to not install recommended packages OR patterns.

Thanks for looking into this!

Comment 1 Michael Andres 2014-10-13 09:35:25 UTC

Please attach the yast logfiles (see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_YaST)

Does 'zypper up --no-recommends' also try to install patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office_opt?

Comment 2 Forgotten User dH2Y-YXEfD 2014-10-13 13:12:52 UTC

Created attachment 609830 [details]
current and old y2log files

Thanks for looking into this!

I removed the patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office package so it wouldn't pull in all the extra clutter, but the following commands work correctly:

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zypper install --no-recommends patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office

zypper install patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office
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With the above commands, the *_opt patterns don't get pulled in.

When trying to re-install patterns-openSUSE-gnome_office via YaST, however, it tries to install the _opt pattern and all of its deps.

I'm attaching my y2logs. Hope it helps.

Comment 3 Michael Andres 2014-10-13 14:19:23 UTC

Passing this to the YAST guys. A glimpse at the logs tells that 'IGNORE_RECOMMENDED=0' in any solver run YAST triggers. Looks like YAST overrides the defaults in zypp.conf.

Comment 4 Martin Vidner 2015-06-22 06:55:50 UTC

One part of a fix: https://github.com/yast/yast-yast2/pull/373

Comment 5 Martin Vidner 2015-06-30 14:00:14 UTC

I propose a new Release Notes entry, replacing the one with id=fate-318213:

Recommended packages (weak dependencies)

YaST Qt packager UI no longer defaults to installing recommended packages for already installed packages. The persistent option controlling this was moved to a one-time command Extras/Install All Matching Recommended Packages. (boo#902394)

For newly installed packages, the weak dependencies are still installed by default, but newly this can be disabled in the UI with the option Dependencies/Install Recommended Packages (boo#900853).

The YaST Qt packager UI is also using the same configuration file as the ncurses packager UI: /etc/sysconfig/yast2 (boo#900853).

Comment 7 Martin Vidner 2015-12-16 13:49:45 UTC

This was fixed in
RPM: libyui-qt-pkg-2.45.0
Git: https://github.com/libyui/libyui-qt-pkg/pull/23