Bug 144736

Summary:	yast shows security updates also if newer versions are installed
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	ferdinand gassauer <gassauer>
Component:	YOU	Assignee:	Harald Mueller-Ney <hmuelle>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description ferdinand gassauer 2006-01-23 09:21:12 UTC

if suplementary packages from
ftp://suse.inode.at/pub/i386/supplementary/
are installed, yast still reports security updates for the "base" distribution packages.

This renders the "red ball" announcing new security updates usesless (more or less)
*) it's good to know
*) usually no need to downgrade
*) the red ball does not disappear any more - hence making the automatic checking feature obsolete, because it's always ON / red.

Comment 1 Harald Mueller-Ney 2006-02-13 13:20:05 UTC

Many thanks for you bug report. 

This problems is known, there is no easy way to change it (YaST Online Update) in SUSE Linux 10.0. We are currently working hard to release SUSE 10.1 - Beta3 is currently available - so that I see no chance to work on this issue recently.
I can imagine this hits you as KDE developers harder than most others cause the (unsupported) supplementary tree contains the latest KDE packages.

The update mechanism for SUSE Linux 10.1 will be very much improved in this regard, so that I expect this problem fixed with the final SUSE Linux 10.1.

I see know chance to fix this now for SUSE Linux 10.1 - the kicker plugin (red ball) used YaST Online Update for checking. 

I set it to "can't fix" (wontfix).