Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 69708
Errata and Packages Upgrades
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
Description of Problem: When I go to the rhn website and login, I chose specific erratas and then Update Selected Erratas. It updates everything including the packages. This is not suppose to happen. It is destructive and it compromises certain applications which are dependent on a previous version of a package. Extremely disappointed. Frank Mancini Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
We appreciate that you took the time to file a bug report, and would like to understand what went wrong, so that we can prevent it from happening in the future. However, the way your bug report reads, it sounds as if you were unaware that Errata usually include packages that are designed to fix whatever the Errata addresses (security fix, product enhancement, etc...). For example: RHSA-2002:127-18 Security Advisory Updated OpenSSH packages fix various security issues Contains 6 packages that need to be upgraded: openssh-server-3.1p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-clients-3.1p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-askpass-gnome-3.1p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-askpass-3.1p1-6.i386.rpm openssh-3.1p1-6.i386.rpm If this is not the case, then I apologize for the misunderstanding on our part. Unfortunately, there are not enough details to do anything helpful with this bug report. If you could take a moment: - what is your userID? - What system were you trying to apply errata to? - what page (URL) were you on when you 'chose specific erratas'. - What were the Errata you selected? - what packages, besides the ones in the errata you selected, were pushed to the system in question? Thank you for your assistance in this manner, and for using the Red Hat Network.
No follow-up, so closing.
If I was not clear I apolagize. It is simple, I understand that with certain erratas some of the packages may get updated as well. However, I am addressing a different problem. Example if there are erratas addressing Apache then I would select them and apply them. I then discover then aside from the erratas all the packages listed as upgradable have also been installed. I suppose now the problem is clear! My user id is irg The problem no longer exists now since I have manually upgraded all of the machines listed in my account manually. When I login into the account at one point it would list example: 17 Erratas - 250 Packages My action would be to address the erratas only, however when I would log back into RHN I would find out that the 17 Erratas as well as the 250 packages were applied. I believe that is wrong and it should be addressed. Regards, Frank