[Bug 441960] New: openSUSE updater enhancements
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441960 Summary: openSUSE updater enhancements Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE4 Applications AssignedTo: kde-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: audi_s4@luukku.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Few important enhancements to the updater should be added: 1) Show icon in front of the patch/update whether it can be updated or not. Sometimes there are dependency issues which do not allow the update/patch to be selected but user cannot know about it unless the text is read carefully. If such update/patch is still selected the updater simply does nothing and does not inform user about it. Green OK sign when no problem and yellow when there are issues and red when it's not possible to update. And if user still wants to select yellow one (red one should not even be selectable) then e.g. dependency issue must be resolved (with dependency solver) before updater can continue. 2) When there are updates it would be very good to see what it the reason for the update. Now the text only shows what the updated application is but not what has changed. I assume that there is change information available. Both description of the application and change information should be shown. 3) It would be nice to see from the task bar icon if there are new software updates. Currently it does not show. Only if there are patches the icon changes to red or yellow. 4) If update has been chosen to be not updated (e.g. due dependency problems) the updater should not show those updates any longer until new version has been released. It may still have dependency issues but this needs new decision. With software manager it is always possible to see those updates again which have been chosen not to update from the updater. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Stephan Binner
Few important enhancements to the updater should be added: 1) Show icon in front of the patch/update whether it can be updated or not. Sometimes there are dependency issues which do not allow the update/patch to be selected but user cannot know about it unless the text is read carefully. If such update/patch is still selected the updater simply does nothing and does not inform user about it. Green OK sign when no problem and yellow when there are issues and red when it's not possible to update. And if user still wants to select yellow one (red one should not even be selectable) then e.g. dependency issue must be resolved (with dependency solver) before updater can continue. The updater applet doesn't know whether a patch can be applied before it
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Thomas Göttlicher
2) When there are updates it would be very good to see what it the reason for the update. Now the text only shows what the updated application is but not what has changed. I assume that there is change information available. Both description of the application and change information should be shown. A description for each patch is shown in the 'detailed view' when the users clicks a patch. If you cannot find such a description it is a bug.
3) It would be nice to see from the task bar icon if there are new software updates. Currently it does not show. Only if there are patches the icon changes to red or yellow. For optional patches or updated packages the icon stays green because we don't want to encourage users to update their systems if there is no need to. A yellow icon indicates recommended patches and red icons indicates security patches.
4) If update has been chosen to be not updated (e.g. due dependency problems) the updater should not show those updates any longer until new version has been released. It may still have dependency issues but this needs new decision With software manager it is always possible to see those updates again which have been chosen not to update from the updater. The updater applet is designed as a light weight applet and doesn't support setting package locks. Due to the fact that the list of available patches and packages is provided provided by libzypp packagelocks are respected.
You might want set a package lock for packages you don't want to update See: http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Locksfile -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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User audi_s4@luukku.com added comment
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--- Comment #2 from pa ju
1) Not correct. In the text field it say e.g. for 'libmad0': "Shared library libmad. To be installed by dependency solvers.". This info can be utilized. Please provide a patch if you know how to extract a machine readable format
2) For patches correct. For updates not. There's no history or change log info about updates available. On my machines I can see descriptions for packages and patches as well. If a
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--- Comment #3 from Thomas Göttlicher
3) Then make this configurable. When I'm using KDE4 I sure want to update to the latest because there are issues with KDE4 apps. See bug 442388.
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--- Comment #4 from pa ju
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