Bug 448745

Summary:	Wish: Update subset of packages when complete update is not possible
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	Bucky <bucky>
Component:	Updates	Assignee:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aleixpol, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.23.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Bucky 2022-01-18 22:51:19 UTC

Whenever you have a list of packages to update -- but one of them has some kind of problem -- you will see the toast message: "Please make sure that appstream is properly setup."

You can't move beyond that within Discover itself.

You need to drop back to some other tool -- perhaps dnf -- find out what package is having the problem, and then decide what you're going to do about it.

My wish is that Discover might offer to update the packages that /can/ be updated, and indicate the packages that cannot.

For example, if I use the command-line "dnf" tool, I might fail with an error like this:

"GPG key at file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql (0x5072E1F5) is already installed
The GPG keys listed for the "MySQL Tools Community" repository are already installed but they are not correct for this package.
Check that the correct key URLs are configured for this repository.. Failing package is: mysql-workbench-community-8.0.28-1.fc35.x86_64"

At that point, I can grumble, "typical," about this particular vendor's commitment to security (this is not the first time they've done this), and then do "dnf upgrade --exclude=mysql-workbench-community" and do a partial update.

Ideally, this sort of feature would never be necessary.

Alas, I feel like it might be practical anyway.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-01-21 01:58:31 UTC

When using offline updates, this is not possible, and it's a limitation/design choice of the PackageKit library that provides offline updates. The whole update is an atomic unit and you can't cherry-pick bits and bobs from it.

However when using interactive updates, you can already skip packages (though it's not really recommended); each package has a checkbox by it and you can uncheck it. Are you asking for this to be automatic or for the UI for it to be improved or something?

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-02-20 04:37:00 UTC

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