Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144013
Applet goes red when only ignored packages are available
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:57 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Up2date applet goes red with a large exclamation point when the only available updates are from ignored packages, such as kernel*. The applet should only go red with an exclamation point when a package which is not ignored is available. Perhaps the applet should turn yellow, meaning "be aware that you might consider stopping" as opposed to the red-"Oh my God, stop what you are doing now". This would make more sense and is intuitive from the perspective of traffic lights. $ rpm -qa | grep up2date up2date-4.3.47-5 up2date-gnome-4.3.47-5 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.3.47-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. don't update your system 2. select packages to be ignored 3. update your system 4. right-click the applet and select check for updates 5. observe the redness of the applet. Actual Results: The applet remained red after update Expected Results: The applet should have turned to some color - other than red. I think blue or yellow would suffice, depending on the situation. Additional info: I think this is a bug as opposed to an enhancement. The current functionality of the applet is totally ruined by the current behavior. Especially considering that kernel packages are ignored by default. The idea of the applet is to be a quick reference. If you have to start up2date to see if there is a package available that is NOT being ignored, then it is no longer quick! Another way of thinking of this is: the applet let's you know when updates are available FOR YOU. Therefore, if a package is uninstalled or ignored, then that package is not available FOR YOU, it is merely available.
OK. I see. One has to double click the applet and mark the ignored packages separately... the applet is not aware that they have been ignored in up2date. Once the applet is made aware that the packages are ignored, then the expected behavior is returned.