Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 67865
"up2date --version" does NOT display version
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:57:31 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 Description of problem: The "--version" option should at least display the dam version. How about adding an option like "--authors" to display who wrote the thing? Only displaying the authors when the version is requested only serves to identify the guilty! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. execute "up2date --version" 2. inspect the displayed window 3. Q.E.D. Actual Results: A window is displayed that contains information about who authored this thing. Expected Results: A window should be displayed showing the current version. Additional info:
The displayed window for me shows at the top "About Red Hat Update Agent 2.7.86" Are you not seeing the same ?
NO!!! Why would I go through the trouble of entering this bug report if I could see the version info??? Try looking again! I have verified this under both KDE and Gnome window managers AND in plain text mode using the --nox option as follows: #up2date --version --nox Red Hat Update Agent v Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Red Hat, Inc. Licensed under terms of the GPL. # This is a simple cut & paste from a terminal window. Do you see any version??? The window titles under KDE and Gnome window managers only show "About". Here is some more info that might be helpful: # rpm -qa | grep up2date up2date-gnome-2.7.61-7.x.2 up2date-2.7.61-7.x.2 Now, at least put as much effort into investigating this defect as I have into reporting and documenting it!
Sorry, but the versions I have work properly. 2.7.61 does indeed not include the version, but has since been fixed.
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-177.html