Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

["Michael Roberts" <mrioce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2008/8/17 Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 02:01 +0200, Michael Roberts wrote:
> > Well immediately after I rebooted, I got the orange sun icon which
> > showed that updates are present. It is listing one update, which is
> > the Packagekit update - the one from above which does not involve
> > security!
>
> More than likely, and I'm not sure, but I do suspect that PackageKit is
> set to install certain updates before others, e.g. an update to fix an
> issue with the software management system is very likely to need to be
> installed separately from everything else. I know that's how it used to
> be when there was an update for the package management system, you had
> to install that first. So install it and try again.
>
> > Thirdly, when it does run after a reboot it is offering optional
> > (albeit "important") updates and omitting serious-looking security
> > updates.
>
> Same answer as above. Install it and try again.
>
> Also keep in mind, I don't know what then frequency of installation of
> automatic updates are, but it could be those updates were pushed after
> it did it's last normal check of automatic updates.
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Yes, the PackageKit update is done first as the updater must restart
afterwards. There are clues about this in the YaST Software Management
interface, but it is not really obvious to a newcomer (I will try to
prepare a more coherent analysis.) The Gnome applet is clearly
respecting that priority and that aspect of its functionality is OK.

In the meantime I see that the log file for the Gnome applet is
/var/log/pk_backend_zypp . This is currently being updated every hour
as expected. I will continue to monitor this to see whether updates
are detected correctly and that the applet continues to be active.
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