Fedup to f20 didn't automatically pull down gnome-software

Elad Alfassa elad at fedoraproject.org
Wed Oct 2 17:44:28 UTC 2013


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed 02 Oct 2013 10:34:03 EDT, drago01 wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Ryan Lerch <rlerch at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I recently just did a fedup from f19 to f20, and the new gnome-software
>>> application was not installed after the upgrade.
>>>
>>> Is this something that should have occurred? if so, where should i file
>>> this
>>> bug?
>>>
>>
>> It would have to replace (i.e obsolete) something for that to happen
>> or something has to grow a dependency on it.
>>
>> Neither is the case so nothing happens ...
>>
>
> Sorry! I meant to ask the question from the perspective of is this
> expected behaviour?
>
> If I fedup from f19 to f20, should gnome-software be installed also.
>
> I also noticed that gnome-packagekit is still installed on my system to.
> As such, i got two lots of notifications (one from gnome-software, and one
> from gnome-packagekit) informing me there were updates to install.
>
> With this one as well, should the expected behaviour be -- when updating
> from f19 to f20 via fedup -- that this package is removed? Is it even
> installed by default anymore when installing from scratch?
>
> cheers,
> ryanlerch
>
>
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We don't have a mechanism to remove/install packages on upgrade without
obsoleting, and gnome-packagekit should NOT be obsoleted by gnome-software.

Therefor, yes, this is the intended behavior.

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-Elad Alfassa.
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