Updates coming daily - Have setting at 1 month - some I don't want

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Updates coming daily - Have setting at 1 month - some I don’t want but keep nagging me to install.
The daily thing is the tray update checker. It won’t recognize the 1 month setting. WHY?

I get a security update for libreoffice. I removed Libreoffice.
Possible some arcane place in the system I can’t find that still has references to Libreoffice?
If so, how would I find it?
Using YaST and searching for ‘libreoffice’ the only thing in the list that is installed is

libhyphen0                     | A simple thesaurus for Libreoffice

and if I try to delete it, it also removes hplip(which I need.

And I have marked Opera as ‘Protected’. yet that thing in the tray still want to update it.
I don’t want it updated. the new version has some changes that are not very user friendly IMO,
and the incognito colors(which I can’t change) are terrible! Purple! Really Opera?
Is there a way to stop that tray thing from nagging me to update?

I hate to remove the widget, because it does indicate when there are updates, and I’m not sure it wouldn’t nag me if I did remove the widget!

EDIT>>> I went ahead and uninstalled the ‘libhypnen0’ and chose the last option in the dependency list, and it only removed ‘libhyphen0’.
I guess I will see if the security update for Libreoffice still want to install.

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Had similar problems here with the KDE/Plasma Software Updates widget. It never respected my »weekly« setting. Last year, I deactivated it.
I now use mostly YaST’s excellent »Online Update« and »Software Management« for keeping my Leap 15.0 main rig up to date and check for any package dependencies.
Since I work within xterm+bash a lot every day, I manually use the zypper command near weekends in order to look for any updates:

rig:~ ▶ **zypper lifecycle**

Product end of support                                  
Codestream: openSUSE Leap 15                            2021-11-30
    openSUSE Leap 15.0                                  2019-11-30

Package end of support if different from product:
libIlmImf-2_2-23                         Now, installed 2.2.1-lp150.2.6.1, update available 2.2.1-lp150.2.9.1 
libapparmor1                             Now, installed 2.12.2-lp150.6.14.1, update available 2.12.3-lp150.6.17.1 
libopenssl1_0_0                          Now, installed 1.0.2p-lp150.2.13.1, update available 1.0.2p-lp150.2.16.1 
libopenssl1_0_0-steam                    Now, installed 1.0.2p-lp150.2.9.1, update available 1.0.2p-lp150.2.16.1 
libopenssl1_0_0-steam-32bit              Now, installed 1.0.2p-lp150.2.9.1, update available 1.0.2p-lp150.2.16.1 
libsolv-tools                            Now, installed 0.6.35-lp150.2.3.1, update available 0.7.5-lp150.7.1 
libwps-0_4-4                             Now, installed 0.4.9-lp150.2.3.1, update available 0.4.10-lp150.7.1 
libxml2-2                                Now, installed 2.9.7-lp150.2.6.1, update available 2.9.7-lp150.2.10.1 
libxml2-2-32bit                          Now, installed 2.9.7-lp150.2.6.1, update available 2.9.7-lp150.2.10.1 
libxml2-devel                            Now, installed 2.9.7-lp150.2.6.1, update available 2.9.7-lp150.2.10.1 
libxml2-tools                            Now, installed 2.9.7-lp150.2.6.1, update available 2.9.7-lp150.2.10.1 
libyui-ncurses-pkg8                      Now, installed 2.48.5.2-lp150.2.3.1, update available 2.48.5.2-lp150.7.1 
libyui-qt-pkg8                           Now, installed 2.45.15.2-lp150.2.3.1, update available 2.45.15.2-lp150.7.1 
libzstd1                                 Now, installed 1.3.4-lp150.1.2, update available 1.4.2-lp150.2.3.1 2019-11-30
libzypp                                  Now, installed 17.7.2-lp150.2.9.1, update available 17.12.0-lp150.2.13.1 
nvidia-computeG04                        Now, installed 390.116-lp150.7.1, update available 390.129-lp150.6.1 
nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default                Now, installed 390.116_k4.12.14_lp150.11-lp150.7.1, update available 390.129_k4.12.14_lp150.11-lp150.6.1 
nvidia-glG04                             Now, installed 390.116-lp150.7.1, update available 390.129-lp150.6.1 
polkit-default-privs                     Now, installed 13.2-lp150.8.22.1, update available 13.2-lp150.8.25.1 
python-solv                              Now, installed 0.6.35-lp150.2.3.1, update available 0.7.5-lp150.7.1 
x11-video-nvidiaG04                      Now, installed 390.116-lp150.7.1, update available 390.129-lp150.6.1 
yast2-pkg-bindings                       Now, installed 4.0.13-lp150.2.10.1, update available 4.0.13-lp150.2.13.1 
zypper                                   Now, installed 1.14.12-lp150.2.9.2, update available 1.14.28-lp150.2.13.1 
zypper-aptitude                          Now, installed 1.14.12-lp150.2.9.2, update available 1.14.28-lp150.2.13.1 
zypper-log                               Now, installed 1.14.12-lp150.2.9.2, update available 1.14.28-lp150.2.13.1 

rig:~ ▶ _

Oh, time to update some packages. :slight_smile:

Sorry, all I can offer is this workaround, not a solution. Oh well.

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Interesting. I’ll note that “zypper lifecycle” is not documented in the man page for “zypper”.

I normally use “zypper lu” if I just want to see what’s available. Or “zypper lp” to list only the available patches.

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“Having setting” it where exactly?

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Right click on the software update widget, and selected ‘Configure Software Updates’. There are daily, weekly and monthly choices.
But I found that it reverts back to daily with each re-boot. DO NOT KNOW WHY!

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I Have since found that the seccurity update for Libreoffice, was actually updates to a spell checker that is used for several things in Firefox as well.
I removed Firefox and then got rid of those spell checkers.
I’ll see what happens when I boot up next time.

I don’t mind using zypper for finding and installing updates. But I really don’t want my wife having ‘root privileges’ on her laptop.
So, i would still like to find a way to discourage that widget from nagging on things set to ‘protected’ mode in YaST.

@nrickert this is a link to SUSE about the zypper lifestyle command https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/book_sle_admin/data/sec_kgraft_lifecycle.html
And here for Leap15.1 (in Chapter 3 - Packaging Changes) https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.1/

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Hi
That would be a bug and worth reporting? I just kill off packagekit…


zypper rm PackageKit PackageKit-backend-zypp PackageKit-lang PackageKit-branding-openSUSE
zypper al PackageKit PackageKit-backend-zypp PackageKit-lang PackageKit-branding-openSUSE
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Thanks for that reference.

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There is also an unfortunately named manpage:

man zypper-lifecycle
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Thanks. I would not have thought to look for that.