James Bullock wrote:
JP Rosevear wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 11:46 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
Today Opensuse Updater indicated there was new fixes (security fixes for CUPS etc).
I told the updater to install these, and they all went fine, but then the updater turns ORANGE and says there is one more recommended upgrade. The additional recommended upgrade is for Cups, Gnome Collection of updates version 4996-0.
I don't even have Gmone installed !?!?? Not all the patched packages were GNOME only - cups and cups-autoconfig being the obvious exception.
Regardless of whether I cancel or go ahead and tell it to install (which probably fails because I don't have gnome installed), the updater prompts again for the same package. Whats up with this package, and why does updater continually prompt for packages I have rejected?
If the update can't install for dependency reasons (I don't have Gmome, remember?) then why does the Updater not just TELL ME THIS? I presume it should, so I'm not sure what is happening here (I have all the relevant packages here).
-JP
+1 on seeing the CUPS updater loop. I'm running 32 bit OpenSuSE 10.3, with KDE, as fully patched as auto-update will deliver. Glad to grab diagnostic info - just tell me what & where.
FWIW, John, there was some borkage somewhere in the updater / dependency engine back with the switch to a new back-end, around 10.1 or so. I think it isn't quite right yet - perhaps something like vulnerable to ill-formed package info vs. rejecting it because it's very sporadic and specific to a particular package when it does happen.
Not too long ago amarok was doing the exact same thing. Then that got happier.
See Bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354963 One of the problems experienced their was the massive growth in size of the /var/cache/zypp.db size. The correct average size of the db is ~57M. When it flakes out, I will look and see zypp.db 100M in size. We still don't have an answer of why this system is experienced the massive growth in db size, but after it got that large, things with updates got really weird, really slow, and occasionally seg-faulted. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org