Re: [opensuse] Opensuse Updater endless Loop - Bad Cups Update? Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:55:24PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:42:42PM -0800, 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.
>> I will check it out.
>>
>> Todays cups update and the GNOME update obviously conflict somehow. (Perhaps
>> because the GNOME update also has "cups" as patchname :()
> 
> It would be very nice if people seeing this could generate a solver testcase
> and put it into Bugzilla.
> 
> (with yast2 menu entry, or zypper up --debug-solver )
> 
> Ciao, Marcus
> 

Do you have a bug # you want it attached to, or do you want a new one? So far, a
gross search on "update" for OpenSuSE 10.3 turns up way too many, while my
narrower search attempts come up blank.


