no "upgrade available" notification

[Billie Erin Walsh]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> Clay Weber said the following at 04/25/2009 07:42 PM :
>
>   
>> Have you tried the instructions given in the link? They are  there in case 
>> such an event as yours happens. Just follow the link from there to the 8.10 
>>     
>
> I beg to differ. They are there (I think) for the case that the updater
> somehow is not running.
>
>   
>> specific instructions (or whichever version you have). It will tell you how to 
>> make the updater start if you do not get the notification.
>>     
>
> Um... I hate to say this, but:
>
> 1) that's not the question. The question was: should I be worried that I
> haven't seen an upgrade notification?
>
> The answer seems to be "Yes", but no one has actually said that yet.
>
> [Of course, if the answer *is* "Yes", the follow-on question is going to
> be: (1) how could that have happened? (2) how do I fix it?] But I repeat
> that we have not passed the threshold issue yet.]
>
> 2) As I said:
>
>   
>>> In other words my system is completely consistent: it simply doesn't
>>> believe that an upgrade is available.
>>>       
>
> Or are you telling me that I have to download a CD? May be that's what I
> have to do... and yet the page distinctly talks about the possibility of
> upgrading over the Internet, and that's always been available before. So I
> don't think I'm supposed to have to download a CD.
>
> I know that the instructions tell me how to start the updater. I don't see
> the relevance. If I start the updater manually, it simply tells me that
> there is no upgrade. No suprise there, since the system believes that there
> are no files that need upgrading. If I keep asking the same question (i.e.,
> "Can you please upgrade?") I'm not really surprised that no matter how I
> ask the question, I keep getting the same answer (i.e., "No; there are no
> files here that need upgrading.")
>
>   
>> With folks upgrading from system using unsupported repos such as backports or 
>> PPA's, there will be some issues that pop up like this.
>>     
>
> As I said in my original posting, I'm afraid that none of that applies. The
> machine in question has a plain vanilla clean install of 32-bit intrepid
> from CD. There may be a (very) few extra packages installed beyond the
> minimal set, but they would all be from the official repositories. I am
> very careful about that.
>
>   Doc
>
>   

I haven't seen an "Update Available" either. From some of what I'm 
reading maybe that's a good thing. I'm running 8.10 with KDE 4.2.2. 
Maybe 9.04 isn't an update if your running KDE 4.2.2 already. *<]:oD

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