SUMMARY If you have updates (zypper dup) which need vendor change (fetch from other repository) or needs a downgrade to an older package from another repository packagekit does not show any notifications nor message dialog to inform the user. It silently quits the update and is re evaluating available updates. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. run any zypper based OS 2. Have updates which need vendor change or downgrades to succeed 3. Click update OBSERVED RESULT The update silently fails and a new search for available updates happens EXPECTED RESULT A popup to ask for user choice eg "change vendors/downgrade or skip update" or just a "zypper dup --allow-vendor-change --allow-downgrade" SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210524 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.12.4-1-default OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This issue is present since I can remember and only openSUSE or openSUSE based operating systems are affected.
These are deficiencies with Zypper's packagekit plugin. You'll need to report it to the openSUSE folks who maintain it. However it is already a known issue; see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1163737 IMO this and other related deficiencies with Zypper's PackageKit integration make it generally unsuitable for use with any kind of PackageKit-using graphical updating app. Zypper's PackageKit integration just isn't up to the task.