Created attachment 102850 [details] Screenshot of plasma-pk-updates widget offline but internet is available Currently, the plasma-pk-updates widget doesn't have any button to do a manual update. Sometimes, even if I connected to internet, the plasma-pk-updates widget still thinks it is offline. Sometimes, available update list is quite old and some packages have been changed. In these situations, users need a way to manually refresh updates. So I suggest to add a refresh button on the widget. In addition, a configuration button is also helpful. Thanks!
The information about whether you are online or not is coming from PackageKit itself, so you are either connected through something what PackageKit doesn't check or there is a bug in PackageKit itself. If you are online you will see a button to refresh packages.
I don't have a refresh button when a list of packages has been loaded. But this list can be 23 hours old (refreshed every 24 hours). Which means that if I launch the update, it might fail (if the packages have changed) without refreshing the repositories (there is still no button and it doesn't refresh automatically). This means that I have to wait until the 24 hours are over to make the update (and not miss the target by too long if I don't want the packages list to be out of sync again). When using a distro like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, it's a real day-to-day issue. Or am I missing something?
(In reply to Maxime Corteel from comment #2) > I don't have a refresh button when a list of packages has been loaded. But > this list can be 23 hours old (refreshed every 24 hours). > Which means that if I launch the update, it might fail (if the packages have > changed) without refreshing the repositories (there is still no button and > it doesn't refresh automatically). > This means that I have to wait until the 24 hours are over to make the > update (and not miss the target by too long if I don't want the packages > list to be out of sync again). > When using a distro like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, it's a real day-to-day issue. > Or am I missing something? I have the same problem with you. I also use openSUSE Tumbleweed. Zypper will check latest repo data every time you update. But plasma-pk-updates will keep old result for 24 hours. When you update with old result, these packages might not exist anymore.
Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately we were not able to get to it yet. If your system is still running Plasma 5, can we ask you to please check if this is still an issue with Plasma 5.27.12 (the current LTS version)? The PK Updates Widget has not been ported to Plasma 6, so if your system has updated to that, this report isn't relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce the bug, please change the Status to "CONFIRMED". Thanks.
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🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.