Ubuntu
update-manager package

Fundamental flaw in "Update Manager"

Bug #352035 reported by emarkay on 2009-03-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #35009: Says "System is up to date" when package lists not updated. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

Open it and it says, EVERY TIME at the top:
"Your system is up to date"

However, if I click "Check" and enter my password, 70% of the time I get some updates.

How about if the default become:
"Your system appears to be up to date, but click the "Check" button to confirm."

(I have noticed this since Ubuntu 6-point-whatever, but have never bothered to comment till now.)

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José Lou Chang (obake) wrote on 2009-03-31:

I agree with emarkay.

We should change the text in a way in which informs the users that it should check for updates.

It have another idea also.

I wonder if we could change the update-manager so that when it is run manually, the first thing it does is to check for repository's update automatically. Of course, this will mean that it will have to ask for sudo or root password in order to execute update-manager.

Any thoughts on this? The easer thing to do is just to change the message.

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XXXXXXX (yddraiggoch) wrote on 2009-03-31:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #35009, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.