Bug 19946

Summary: kmail is gone, and can not be installed
Product: Mageia Reporter: Sam Khangyi <khangyi>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: KDE maintainers <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: mageia, marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Source RPM: kmail CVE:
Status comment:

Description Sam Khangyi 2016-12-14 15:57:58 CET 
Description of problem:

After latest update, I am no longer able to run or install kmail on the system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
do your updates, kmail is gone ..

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Sam Khangyi 2016-12-14 16:04:44 CET 
Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:

- kmail-16.08.3-1.mga6.x86_64

i use kmail for my e-mail client, i had it installed prior to the update.
Updates should not remove installed software silently while pretending to update them.
Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2016-12-14 21:41:16 CET 
There was a message from one of the KDE maintainers on dev ml:

On 14-12-16 at 17:19 Nicolas Lécureuil wrote:
> Hi
> 
> we have our last update for mga6.
> 
> The good news are that there is less kde4 apps and more kf5 ones (
> okular, etc), a lot of work have been done to fix/improve kdepim.
> 
> 
> there are still some rpms not updated but this will come tonight.

There are often problems when only part of packages that belong together (like those of a desktop environment) are updated. 

Please retry installing kmail after Nicolas writes dev ml that it's safe to update system, or when someone tells you in this report.

Btw, are you *sure* you didn't see a message like:

The following package has to be removed for others to be upgraded: kmail

before agreeing to proceed with the updates?

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kde

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2016-12-15 06:59:53 CET 
(In reply to Sam Khangyi from comment #1)

> Updates should not remove installed software silently while pretending to
> update them.

I just checked, but that isn't done silently.  It still works as expected: when choosing to update, you get a message:

> The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:

and then a long lists follows, one item is kmail:

> kmail-16.08.3-1.mga6.x86_64
> (due to missing kwallet-daemon)

Choosing "No" stops the update process and keeps kmail installed.

I hope neoclust will finish pushing all updates soon, so that you'll be able to use kmail again!
Comment 4 Nicolas Lécureuil 2016-12-15 09:13:04 CET 
new kmail on the BS now

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 5 Sam Khangyi 2016-12-15 15:23:08 CET 
Thanks, it can be installed now :-)
Comment 6 Sam Khangyi 2016-12-15 16:25:32 CET 
Couldn't get it to connect to my smtp/imap server anymore ... same setting no connect, and does not open the emails from cache
Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2016-12-15 19:55:42 CET 
It is very likely that when you allowed updater to remove kmail, that you allowed it to remove a lot of other related packages, too.

When installing kmail, it should have pulled in every missing package it needs, but maybe logging out and back in is needed, too?

@ KDE team

If that doesn't work, would reïnstalling task-plasma5 & task-plasma5-minimal with 

    urpmi --replacepkgs task-plasma5 task-plasma5-minimal

be useful?
Comment 8 Sam Khangyi 2016-12-15 21:17:00 CET 
It works now after the latest update, must have needed those files too.
But i will keep the urpmi --replacepkgs task-plasma5 task-plasma5-minimal in mind .. looks like a good idea
Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2016-12-15 22:12:29 CET 
(In reply to Sam Khangyi from comment #8)
> It works now after the latest update,

Thanks for the feedback, closing this report then :-)

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED