kpackagekit lies about what updates will be installed

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

I unchecked a number of updates from my PPA, but kpackagekit installed them anyway. As you can see from the screenshot it says 23 updates, 7 selected, but all 23 got installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: kpackagekit 0.6.3.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 26 21:01:27 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kpackagekit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel Nicoletti (dantti)]

Well KPackageKit does not lie about what it will install (the backend might lie, but if it is aptcc it doesn't),
the issue is probably because you selected not see the
confimation dialog which shows additional packages that are required,
so if one of these 7 updates depends on qt4.7 then all of them
must be installed, kpk would have warn you that, but as
you want to ignore the dialog it isn't shown.

You can reenable it by going into kpk settings, "Show confirmation dialog..."

Best.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

No. None of the updates that were selected required the Qt update.

[Thorsteinn A. Malmjursson (lightningstrike35)]

Could I confirm with you, Scott, that you're still experiencing this bug? Bearing in mind that kpackagekit no longer exists, if you're still using it, could you upgrade to apper possibly? Or if you're not still using it, maybe this bug could be closed.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I'm no longer using kpackagekit or apper. It should be easy enough for
someone using it to check and see if this still happens.

[Jens Jäschke (brokenphysics)]

Since kpackagekit doesn't exist any more for considerable time now, and the reporter doesn't use it anymore, this should probably be closed. ("wontfix"?)

[Thorsteinn A. Malmjursson (lightningstrike35)]

Yup, I'll second that. If it needs reopening in the future, someone can reopen it. I'm closing it as wontfix - quite simply cause the package it was intended for doesn't exist.

[Thorsteinn A. Malmjursson (lightningstrike35)]

Seems I can't close it as a wontfix, so it's shut as incomplete, since it can no longer be verified :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for kpackagekit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]