10.3 bad update bug-buddy 2.20.1-1.1

This evening, the opensuse-updater applet greeted me with a red
triangle and told me there were four "mandatory updates" available.
Clicking "install" made it churn for a while, but the triangle
stayed red and the number of mandatory updates at 4 even after a
manual recheck.

Going via the "details" button revealed that one of the updates,
bug-buddy 2.20.1-1.1 could not be installed because of a "missing
dependency" on ... itself! Specifically, what it tells me is this:
(translated back from German - yes, the German text is as strange
as that):

Warning
Dependency Conflict
(-) /!\ atom:bug-buddy cannot be installed due to missing dependencies
     +- There are no installable providers of bug-buddy >= 2.20.1-1.1
available for atom:bug-buddy-2.20.1-1.1.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates]
     +- === atom:bug-buddy-2.20.1-1.1.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] ===
     +-   atom:bug-buddy-2.20.1-1.1.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] is needed by
patch:bug-buddy-4686-0.noarch[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] (bug-buddy == 2.20.1-1.1)
     +-   bug-buddy-2.20.1-1.1.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] provides bug-buddy ==
2.20.1-1.1 but is not installable. Try to install the object separately to
receive further details.
     +-
    (-)- [ ] Conflict resolution
          +- O don't install bug-buddy
          +- O requirement will be ignored here

What the ... is that message trying to tell me, and what am I
supposed to do about it?

Btw: I do have bug-buddy installed, it's version 2.20.0-5.2.

Btw2: Once I deselected the bug-buddy update manually, the
others installed just fine, so now I'm down to one mandatory
update, but opensuse-updater stays in the "red triangle" state.

-- 
Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
Bonn, Germany
- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

I have the same bug-buddy problem on 3 10.3 machines.

I removed bug-buddy on one and the updater is happy now.

Do I need bug-buddy?  It has never worked for me anyway.  I don't 
understand why it even installed!

???

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:50:46 GMT
Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt@phoenixsoftware.de> wrote:

> This evening, the opensuse-updater applet greeted me with a red
> triangle and told me there were four "mandatory updates"
available.
> Clicking "install" made it churn for a while, but the triangle
> stayed red and the number of mandatory updates at 4 even after a
> manual recheck.
> 
> Going via the "details" button revealed that one of the updates,
> bug-buddy 2.20.1-1.1 could not be installed because of a "missing
> dependency" on ... itself! Specifically, what it tells me is this:
> (translated back from German - yes, the German text is as strange
> as that):
> 
> Warning
> Dependency Conflict
> (-) /!\ atom:bug-buddy cannot be installed due to missing dependencies
>      +- There are no installable providers of bug-buddy >= 2.20.1-1.1
> available for atom:bug-buddy-2.20.1-1.1.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates]
> +- === atom:bug-buddy-2.20.1-1.1.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] === +-
> atom:bug-buddy-2.20.1-1.1.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] is needed by
> patch:bug-buddy-4686-0.noarch[openSUSE-10.3-Updates] (bug-buddy ==
> 2.20.1-1.1) +-   bug-buddy-2.20.1-1.1.i586[openSUSE-10.3-Updates]
> provides bug-buddy == 2.20.1-1.1 but is not installable. Try to
> install the object separately to receive further details. +- (-)- [ ]
> Conflict resolution +- O don't install bug-buddy +- O requirement
> will be ignored here
> 
> What the ... is that message trying to tell me, and what am I
> supposed to do about it?
> 
> Btw: I do have bug-buddy installed, it's version 2.20.0-5.2.
> 
> Btw2: Once I deselected the bug-buddy update manually, the
> others installed just fine, so now I'm down to one mandatory
> update, but opensuse-updater stays in the "red triangle" state.
> 
Hi
Seems the bug-buddy-lang<version> hasn't been installed, If you
download the two files from;
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE/openSUSE_10.3/<your_a
rch>

Then in the directory where both files are run the commands;

rpm -Uhv bug-buddy-*
SuSEconfig

Then refresh your updater icon.

-- 
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SLED 10.0 SP1 x86_64 Kernel 2.6.16.53-0.16-smp

Thanks Malcom

Worked like a charm :-)

Am 16.11.2007 03:24 schrieb Pat:
> Thanks Malcom
> 
> Worked like a charm :-)

Same here. Thanks from me, too.

But now I wonder:
a) Why wasn't the bug-buddy-lang package installed in the first place?
b) Why wasn't it mentioned as a dependency in that updater message?

-- 
Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
Bonn, Germany
- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.