Re: BUG: no more kernel updates

Markus Gaugusch <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:14:15 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.fou4s.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Oct 26, Kevin Ivory <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2004-10-26 11:41, Markus Gaugusch wrote:
> > I tried to reproduce your problem (and Kevin's), but everything worked
> > for me. (I installed the aaa_base update on several machines this morning
> > using fou4s 0.12.4). The kernel update is also shown on at least one
> > machine (SuSE 9.1).
> > I'll try to investigate further.
> 
> I am taking my statement back - even though something seems strange.
> It happened to me yesterday on my SUSE 9.1 local computer where I
> didn't invesigate further but simply used a rpm -Fvh k_deflt...
> 
> The 9.0 system I noticed today had a 0.12.3 and the fresh "fou4s -ue"
> came up with: k_deflt                2.4.21-243    (2.4.21-144   ) [dl]
> security    25005kb
> 
> When I check "rpm -qi k_deflt" on the system, I can see that the
> -243 RPM was already installed on Oct 13. So the new version is
> correct about k_deflt and the old fou4s version might have had a
> cache problem.

If a package is installed more than once (e.g. you do rpm -ivh kernel.rpm 
more than once), fou4s may get confused (tries to install the same version 
that is already installed). 
Although this doesn't seem to be the case with your logs, I'll at least 
try to fix that bug...

Markus
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