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[Bug 300569] zypper shows wrong updates
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  • Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:13:45 -0600 (MDT)
  • Message-id: <20070827161345.8EB24CC78D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=300569#c12


Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf@xxxxxxxxxx> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf@xxxxxxxxxx>  2007-08-27 10:13:45 MST ---
(In reply to comment #8 from Robin Knapp)
> Maybe this information helps:
> 
> I wondered why I'm offered the iwl update whilst not having any iwl package
> installed at all.

Yeah, thats a bug.

> So I called "zypper up" and got this result:
> 
> ------------------------- snip ------------------------- 
> vmware:~ # zypper up
> * Reading repository 'CD' cache
> * Reading repository 'factory' cache
> * Reading repository 'openSUSE-10.3-Updates' cache
> * Reading repository 'KDE4' cache
> * Reading installed packages [100%]
> 
> 
> The following NEW atoms are going to be installed:
> iwlwifi-kmp-bigsmp iwl4965-ucode iwl3945-ucode iwlwifi-kmp-xenpae

Huh ? Atoms are internal and shouldn't be shown.

> 
> The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
> iwl3945-ucode iwl4965-ucode iwlwifi-kmp-bigsmp iwlwifi-kmp-xenpae kernel-bigsmp
> kernel-xenpae xen mpt-firmware

This is indeed frightening

> 
> The following NEW patch is going to be installed:
> iwl3945-ucode

Well, its only optional and IMHO 'zypper up' shouldn't pick up optional
patches.


I'll have a look at this.


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