[sorry, unintended personal reply the first time :( ]
On Tue, 08 May 2012 20:53:22 +0530, Sven Burmeister
Am Dienstag, 8. Mai 2012, 15:04:15 schrieb phanisvara das:
On Tue, 08 May 2012 14:54:23 +0530, Basil Chupin
wrote:
... Can anyone throw some light on the above error message, please? (Or do I simply turn off the daily Online Update feature?)
practically everybody i know of has either disabled or uninstalled apper. it doesn't work, full stop. get rid of it & forget it.
That wrong in two ways. First of all apper is just a front-end to packagekit and packagekit is powered by a zypp-backend. Hence most issues you think are apper's fault are zypp backend bugs.
i didn't assign fault anywhere, apper, packagekit, or zypp libs. zpper works fine, but once you put it together with apper & packagekit, it stops working. it doesn't install needed patches, reports wrong patches as missing, and doesn't usually stop on it's own, blocking access to zypper or yast. if you call this working ok, i beg to differ
Second, apper works nicely for most situations and is very useful as a notifier since it is not an option to make users check for updates via zypper or running some yast module.
i'm not suggesting this solution for your SLES/D customers, but to basil, who clearly stated that he runs regular updates via zypper. for him, apper is neither needed nor useful, and just a source of trouble. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org