mintUpdate does not update package state
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:55 pm
Hi everybody!
I have a question / bug report concerning the mintUpdate in LMDE. Here is the behavior I see:
if I right-click on the mintUpdate icon in the tray and choose "refresh" mintUpdate reports "your system is up to date"
if I now run "sudo apt-get update" from the command line and perform the steps above, I get notified about existing updates.
I read a lot of threads in the forum concerning the "best way" of updating LMDE and concerning the "level 4 and 5" updates (which I enabled on my system). Now my question is slightly different. From the mainstream Mint I am used to the mintUpdate as a tool to keep my system up to date. This means to me, that if there are updates available out there, I get a notification. This implies, that an update of the package state is performed by mintUpdate before notifying me on the state of my system. This seems not to be the case in LMDE, as I have to update the package state via "apt-get update". Now I want to know: is this the intended behavior of mintUpdate. If yes - why? Why should the user be forced to update the package DB via command line? Isn't that the task of mintUpdate? If no - does anyone else experience this issue? Any workarounds?
Don't get me wrong, I'm actually not a linux newbie and in fact I do prefer the command line for such tasks. But on the other hand I believe the "user friendly" (whatever this is) graphical tools should work properly and every bug should be chased down by the community to improve the system. So is this issue a bug?
I have a question / bug report concerning the mintUpdate in LMDE. Here is the behavior I see:
if I right-click on the mintUpdate icon in the tray and choose "refresh" mintUpdate reports "your system is up to date"
if I now run "sudo apt-get update" from the command line and perform the steps above, I get notified about existing updates.
I read a lot of threads in the forum concerning the "best way" of updating LMDE and concerning the "level 4 and 5" updates (which I enabled on my system). Now my question is slightly different. From the mainstream Mint I am used to the mintUpdate as a tool to keep my system up to date. This means to me, that if there are updates available out there, I get a notification. This implies, that an update of the package state is performed by mintUpdate before notifying me on the state of my system. This seems not to be the case in LMDE, as I have to update the package state via "apt-get update". Now I want to know: is this the intended behavior of mintUpdate. If yes - why? Why should the user be forced to update the package DB via command line? Isn't that the task of mintUpdate? If no - does anyone else experience this issue? Any workarounds?
Don't get me wrong, I'm actually not a linux newbie and in fact I do prefer the command line for such tasks. But on the other hand I believe the "user friendly" (whatever this is) graphical tools should work properly and every bug should be chased down by the community to improve the system. So is this issue a bug?