Bug 8688

Summary: "urpmi --auto-update" removed (old) Pan newsreader
Product: Mageia Reporter: Maurice Batey <maurice77>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: maurice77, thierry.vignaud
Version: CauldronKeywords: NEEDINFO
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: urpmi-7.15.1-1.mga3.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:

Description Maurice Batey 2013-01-14 17:54:41 CET
Description of problem:

Using "urpmi --auto-update" removed an installed instance of the Pan newsreader
(old version).

(This was being done to recover from kernel panic at boot following a s/w update from cauldron.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 See 'Source RPM' info above

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. From e.g. a Mageia-2 session on the same machine:

      mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mga3-root
      chroot /mga3-root
      mount -t proc none /proc
      mount -t sysfs none /sys
      urpmi --auto-update

2.  Watch terminal session output, and soon notice "Removing pan..."

   N.B. "pan" is listed in /etc/urpmi/skip.list, and was *not* replaced by another version of pan. It was installed earlier by:

 urpmi --allow-nodeps /home/mab/Downloads/pan-0.14.2.91-4mdk.i586.rpm

(The whole s/w update installed 1,320 packages, on Jan.14.)

3.
Comment 1 Maurice Batey 2013-01-14 18:17:19 CET
No sooner done than I then find a new version of urpmi queued for update that was not there yesterday! (Though no indication as to what the improvements are.)
Maurice Batey 2013-01-14 18:17:35 CET

CC: (none) => maurice

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2013-01-18 23:00:48 CET
well without any logs we (or at least I) can nothing with such bugs)
Comment 3 Maurice Batey 2013-01-18 23:12:40 CET
I appreciate that. There is no log because the session in which the deletion took place ended by freezing the whole system and I had to abort.
  I reported it nevertheless as such incidences must come to light.

However, I have now tried another s/w update (but not via chroot) and it did *not* remove Pan, so perhaps the later urpmi that the earlier update installed does not have the problem.

But in which circumstances would 'urpmi --auto-update' log the activity
"Removing .... "?
Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2013-01-18 23:17:43 CET
if there is an obesolete in another package iirc, but there could be indeed a bug (I have not seen another one related to skip.list for now)

Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0

Thierry Vignaud 2013-03-24 11:43:05 CET

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2013-05-17 16:10:00 CEST
You can also look at your /var/log/messages*

Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD