Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (31 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I'd like to make some noise about this bug: 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637764

I assume it stems from the PK zypp backend. Since both gnome-packagekit and 
kpackagekit are affected.

The implications of it are many and severe:
* A return to the repo ping-pong of pre-vendor sticky times
* Users installing OBS and packman updates thinking they're official patches
* All the effort to implement and explain vendor sticky in zypp/yast will have 
been more or less in vain
* It will be confusing for users that the updater behaves differently and 
shows load more updates than yast or zypper up/patch

Basically what the packagekit updaters are doing on 11.4, is the equivalent of 
pushing users to run 'zypper dup' on a regular basis. 

Surely this can't be intended? Any chance it can be fixed in time for 11.4?

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