Disturbing discovery regarding Discover

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Hello,

  • OpenMandriva Lx version:

Rock/Lx 4.1

  • Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):

All

  • Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):

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  • Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

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Today I attempted to test Discover in response to an issue reported here.

Unfortunately I discovered something more disturbing with Discover. We can see in the screen-shots above that In a fresh install of “OpenMandrivaLx.4.1-2020.05-plasma.x86_64.iso” after first boot Discover reports “Up to date” whereas in Konsole “dnf upgrade” shows 38 packages to update and 1 to install as a dependency.

I use dnfdragora occasionally to search for software and I use Discover for nothing because I long ago lost trust in it. I only use Discover when I am testing it.

While we do provide dnfdragora and Discover at user request we recommend that users do package management transactions from terminal (Konsole) with dnf.

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Discover uses packagekit (pkcon) and sometimes it needs to be forced to update itself to latest information in the repository metadata. This is command for that:

$ pkcon refresh force

discover-notifier is actual package name for the Discover notifier utility. You can remove it if you wish.

It is recommended to use discover-notifier only to notify user of packages to upgrade and then to do the actual transaction from terminal (Konsole).

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https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/releases/omlx42/beta/errata#discover