Bug ID 1163737
Summary Zypp PackageKit plugin exits when user interactivity would be required to solve an ambiguous packaging situation, causing updates via GUI package managers like GNOME Software and KDE Discover to fail
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version Current
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Major
Priority P5 - None
Component Upgrade Problems
Assignee bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter pointedstick@zoho.com
QA Contact jsrain@suse.com
Found By ---
Blocker ---

When you upgrade using the `zypper` CPI tool and there is an ambiguous
packaging situation, a prompt is presented to the user requesting that a
decision be made regarding how to proceed.

However the Zypp PackageKit plugin has no facility to do this, and also does
not choose a default answer. As a result, whenever you update your system using
GNOME Software, KDE Discover, plasma-pk-updates, or another PackageKit-using
GUI tool and such a situation crops up, the update process just fails and
cannot be completed. The update must be performed using the CLI.

This is not very user friendly. If I installed openSUSE on my mother's
computer, I would get a panicked phone call every time this happened and have
to perform the update manually.

Other PackageKit plugins (e.g. aptcc) manage to choose a safe default answer
instead of prompting for user input in these kinds of circumstances. The Zypp
plugin could and should as well.


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