up2date: not very bright, is it?

[Adrian Likins]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:19:52PM +0200, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> Elton Woo wrote:
> > I've just launched up2date to fetch stuff from the RHN beta channel.
> > Usually, I just "select all" ... and wer'e off! However, I had to
> > redo my selections because the "new" and "old" versions are the
> > same.
> > 
> > You'd think that if up2date found that if it found that both versions
> > were the _same_ it would automatically skip the selected package(s)
> > wouldn't /shouldn't it? ... or should I enter this as an RFE?
> 
> I've noticed this a few times myself too.  I found out that I had two 
> versions of the same package installed.  After managing to delete the 
> older version whilst making sure the files from the newer didn't get 
> deleted all was well with up2date.
	
	up2date version? it's not supposed to do that. `rpm -qa`
of a before would help, if you've got it. It's supposed
to check all the installed versions to see if the newest one
is new enough (big issue with kernels, in particular...).


Adrian