Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-softwaremgmt (17 mails)

[Michael Andres <ma@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 25 June 2009 17:19:55 Jano Kupec wrote:
> (In reply to comment #5
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506860#c5):
> > Anyway, IMO zypper should not deal with individual patch
> > resolvables, but use Selectable and test for Selectable::isSatisfied
> > (this considers the latest version of the patch).
>
> Agreed, i'll do it.
>
> But it made me think abou the patch lists we show. Currently 'zypper
> patches' shows all versions (resolvables):
>
> $ zypper patches
> <cut>
> openSUSE 11.1 Updates │ xpdf │ 579     │ recommended │ Not Applicable
> openSUSE 11.1 Updates │ xpdf │ 793     │ security    │ Not Applicable
> <cut>
>
> Shouldn't we show only the latest, esp. if the policy dictates (is it
> documented somewhere?) that newer patches obsolete the older ones?

Well - Patches are assertions, so I'd say they 'include' older ones rather 
than 'obsolete' them. 

> And i guess for 'zypper list-patches' it's only natural that only the
> latest version should be shown as well then.

Zyppers suggestions should be based on the status of the latest patch 
version(level). But I don't think we should completely hide the older 
versions. 

When looking for a patch that fixed a certain bug, you may find it's fixed  
in somepatch-3. So you want to see if somepatch-3 is satisfied, even if 
somepatch-4 is already released. Maybe you consider somepatch-4 not being 
that important, and decide to stay at level -3.

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cu,
    Michael Andres

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