On Sunday, July 16, 2006 @ 12:26 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sunday 16 July 2006 12:30, Greg Wallace wrote:
Once upon a time (not sure how many versions back this goes), there were two version columns under Software Management, just as there are now, <snip>
Hi Greg,
The two columns are 'Inst Ver' and 'Avail Ver'.
If 'Inst Ver' is empty, the package is not installed. If the package is available for installation, it appears in the 'Avail Ver' column.
'Avail Ver' shows the latest version that is available **from the installation sources you've defined.**
When 'Avail Ver' > 'Inst Ver' the text in that row turns blue. This means you *can* update it to the later version.
When 'Avail Ver' = 'Inst Ver' the text in that row remains black. Nothing to do in this case.
When 'Inst Ver' > 'Avail Ver' the text in that row turns red.
hth & regards,
Carl
Carl Are you on 10.1? Do you have any instances where you have different versions in those columns, either one direction or the other? I believe, in the old days, that the Avail. version was what was on your installation CD and the Inst. version was either that version or a later version you had installed via YOU, isn't that the way it worked? I guess you could have also installed a version that was earlier than what was shipped on the CD, but I never did that. Under 10.1, it just doesn't appear to be working that way any more, but maybe I'm wrong. I say that because I have installed multiple patches since I first converted to 10.1, and I don't see a single instance under my summary of packages where the Inst. version is greater than the Avail. version. Looks sort of like that feature is no longer working. Greg W -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com