[zypp-devel] Re: [Bug 551992] zypper pchk and zypper dup have different opinion about necessary update

Hi Rolf! On 11/10/2009 10:06 PM, Rolf Krahl wrote:

Dear Ján,

Am Montag, 9. November 2009 10:43:16 schrieb bugzilla_noreply@novell.com:

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http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551992

--- Comment #3 from Ján Kupec 2009-11-09 02:43:15 MST --- Rolf, this is something different, and it's really weird. Can you please file new report for this and attach the solver testcase (zypper patch --debug-solver)? Thanx!

While searching bugzilla again, i found that my problem seem to be Bug #498814 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498814),

Yes, it seems so. Obviously the patch metadata are wrong again; the older patches should not be shown as needed, if newer ones are already installed (satisfied, more precisely).

which is marked as fixed. So i assume a new report is not usefull any more.

I reproduced it, so no need to report (i'll report it later). It seems this is a new way of making this bug appear (so it's good you spoke up!). E.g. patch:softwaremgmt-473 requires also new yast-online-update and yast-online-update-frontend package, but those who did not install updates before patch:softwaremgmt-791 was released did not install the new yast-online-update. Since 791 was released, 'zypper patch' only installs patch:softwaremgmt-791, which does not require the new yast package anymore. That's probably why the new patch is satisfied, and the old one is not. Fortunately 'zypper install -t patch softwaremgmt-473' seems to resolve the problem. You can try the same with the rest. I'll look into this further a bit later to prevent such problems in the future. Thanx again! -- cheers, jano Ján Kupec YaST team ---------------------------------------------------------(PGP)--- Key ID: 637EE901 Fingerprint: 93B9 C79B 2D20 51C3 800B E09B 8048 46A6 637E E901 ---------------------------------------------------------(IRC)--- Server: irc.freenode.net Nick: jniq Channels: #zypp #yast #suse #susecz ---------------------------------------------------------(EOF)---