From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: up2date options --showall or --show-available list package names which cannot be used as input for installation. For example: $ up2date --showall|grep libxml libxml-1.8.17-9.1.i386 libxml-devel-1.8.17-9.1.i386 libxml2-2.5.10-6.i386 libxml2-devel-2.5.10-6.i386 libxml2-python-2.5.10-6.i386 perl-libxml-enno-1.02-29.noarch perl-libxml-perl-0.07-28.noarch $ up2date perl-libxml-perl-0.07-28.noarch Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3-extras... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3-devsuite... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-3-es-i386-rhaps-beta... Fetching rpm headers... ######################################## Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- The following packages you requested were not found: perl-libxml-perl-0.07-28.noarch This will work if I run up2date perl-libxml-perl, but that is pretty poor usability. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.2.38-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. up2date --showall 2. Choose any line 3. Feed as argument to up2date Actual Results: Package not found. Expected Results: For package to be installed. Additional info:
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