Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (757 mails)

[Gordon Pritchard <gordon.pritchard@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 10:32, JW wrote:

> Anyway, that's not the worst of YOU's problems - it uses it's own
> internal patch manager and never consults rpm.

	What?!?!?!  Holy crap...

	There are a number of dependencies I've resolved and indeed packages
I've installed by searching the 'Net and rpm'ing into place, both from
the command-line and using GUI package managers.  It was my expectation
with these tools, and with YOU, that the underlying rpm-database was
sound, current, and accurate.

> I had to hack some things to get YOU to wake up. This is very bad.

	I agree!  Wholeheartedly!
	Sync'ing should never be a problem, because a tool like YOU (or Webmin)
should sit atop the database.

> Also if you download, say 5 updates (this actually happened to me)
> and during the install part rpm gives an error, say on the second
> package, the installation ceases (i.e. the remaining packages do _not_
> get installed) yet YOU marks them as successfully installed anyway.

	Separate problem, to be sure, but again "Holy Crap!" :-(

> This is very bad.

	I did not know about these problems... Yes, I agree these are really
serious issues, Jonathan.

	-Gord

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