Re: [opensuse] updating problem (opensususeupdater)

This update is optional - It will display that the
update is there but as an optional update you need to
decide to tick it and it will install. Other wise don't
worry about it.

If you change the drop down box to "show patch
category" to - All installed and installable patches
you will see the mandatory - and optional ones which
you have to tick

Scott



Carlos E. R. wrote:

Hi,

opensuse updater says there is one package available:

Name Type New Version Catalog
perl-Archive-Tar: Update to satisfy missing dependency Patch 3438-0 20070216-193512


But when I choose to update, there is nothing (in YOU). I close it, and
the next round there it is again. A day has passed already and it keeps
insisting there is one update when there is none.

What is wrong?


If I manually search in YOU for "perl-Archive-Tar", I find a package not
selected for update, installed version 1.30-17 and available version
1.30-22.1.

Why doesn't it update automatically? And, if it should not be updated, why
does opensuse-updater says there is one update pending?


If I search for the patch, it says thus:


perl-Archive-Tar - perl-Archive-Tar: Update to satisfy missing
dependency

A earlier spamassassin update added a new dependency for
perl-Archive-Tar. This causes illegible errormessages from the update
stack which are not do not point to this problem.Since it requires the
package to be pulled from the installation media which might not be
listed anymore this update just contains the package to fulfill the new
dependencies.

It contains no changes compared to the original shipping version.



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