On 6/05/2009, at 9:11 PM, jmr wrote:
8593 Webinstall against disabled repositories gives poor error message
- With a disabled repo a user clicking on a p5i file sees the list
of Publishers and packages to add, hits proceeds to then be informed
that there are duplicate repositories and no packages or other repos
from this p5i file can be added.
Repository Error: "A publisher with the same name or alias as
'<publisher>' already exists."
This is correct but will make little sense to the user. If a user
installs the occasional package from a repo and then disables it,
only to use another p5i file for something in this repo weeks or
months later they will get this error message and be more than a
little confused.
The fix is a simple one using the existing Publisher api to see if
the Repository which is not registered is actually there but
disabled, then the user is warned with an appropriate error as soon
as they click the p5i file that this Publisher is disabled and not
available for any package operations.
Repository Error: "Publisher '<publisher>' is disabled and cannot be
used for packaging operations."
All other repos and packages will then be added as expected. Its
been tested with single and multiple repos both disabled, enabled
and not registered, all work as expected.
Webrev:
http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jmr/pm_8593_webinstall_disabled_repo_5May_2pm/
I know some of these messages are being created from the API and
exceptions raised, but it would be nice from a user experience to tell
the user how to continue - perhaps that's a case of providing a button
with 'Enable repository and install package', or telling them how they
go about changing it themselves.
Glynn
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