Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55810
'up2date --test -u' seems to ignore the --test option
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:52:33 EST
Description of Problem: I just ran up2date --test -u a moment ago, in order to see what up2date was going to do if I ran it with the -u flag. It carried along displaying all of it's output, and I reviewed all of the messages printed to the console. The changes looked fine, so I ran 'up2date -u', which should have actually installed the packages. Instead, it told me that there were no new packages. When I reviewed the versions of installed pacakges, lo and behold, the ones that it had told me about with --test were actually installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.7.2-7.x.6 Steps to Reproduce: It's a little hard to try to reproduce this, since there aren't any new packages to get installed right now. Additional Information: I've marked this as "high", but it could conceivably be security related, I guess.
Well, yeah. The "--test" isnt really intended for a useful purpose ( more of a handy hook for devel time stuff). It wasnt supposed to even be documented. The new arg parsing stuff autogenerates the help text though, and it shows "--test" as a valid option. That wasnt intentional. I'll probabaly just remove "--test" entirely, since it doesnt really do anything. Just commited code to remove this option. I might bring it back later with equilvant function as "--test" of rpm. For now "--list" should be close enough.
*** Bug 56770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-119.html