Re: [Cooker] Re: URPMI in the spotlight, was: question on ftp sites
Software Manager/rpmdrake/whatever should have the full functionality of URPMI IMHO. AFAIK, it does not as of now. Yeah, and what annoys me is that the urpm tools don't have all the functionnality of rpmdrake as well ! For example, try to display the description of the package kernel, or bc, on the command line. You'll see what I mean. It would be great to be able to print information about a package, and especially of a particular package. I think this could be added to urpmq instead of urpmf. Hope it will be done for 9.2 ! :-) :-) Aurélien
[Cooker] Re: URPMI in the spotlight, was: question on ftp sites
François Pons wrote: Le lun 10/03/2003 à 14:22, Buchan Milne a écrit : While we are here, any chance to have gui tools for 1)Selecting how often to run automatic updates This could be great indeed, any idea how to improve urpmi/rpmdrake is welcome as next version will be designed soon now. Tabs for regular info/ files/ changelog. Other than rpmdrake is just wonderful. Maybe if I can ever get my Cooker mirror up to date again I can get Cooker running again and have more helpful suggestions.
Re: [Cooker] Re: URPMI in the spotlight, was: question on ftp sites
I think having URPMI have a resume capability would rock. AFAIK, it doesn't do that now. I am on dialup and when I lose my conn. URPMI fails and I actually have to kill the process to get it to stop. I also lose whatever has been downloaded so far (/var/cache/urpmi/rpms). As a result, I can only use URPMI well at work with ADSL. I also think it should ask whether to delete the locally downloaded files on completeion or not. If not, then if it were to get cutoff, at least I wouldn't lose what I'd downloaded so far. Maybe I am wrong about URPMI but that would be a great feature. My .0002c worth. Regards, Jason Greenwood David Walser wrote: François Pons wrote: Le lun 10/03/2003 à 14:22, Buchan Milne a écrit : While we are here, any chance to have gui tools for 1)Selecting how often to run automatic updates This could be great indeed, any idea how to improve urpmi/rpmdrake is welcome as next version will be designed soon now. Tabs for regular info/ files/ changelog. Other than rpmdrake is just wonderful. Maybe if I can ever get my Cooker mirror up to date again I can get Cooker running again and have more helpful suggestions.
Re: [Cooker] Re: URPMI in the spotlight, was: question on ftp sites
This time Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: I think having URPMI have a resume capability would rock. AFAIK, it doesn't do that now. I am on dialup and when I lose my conn. URPMI fails and I actually have to kill the process to get it to stop. I also lose whatever has been downloaded so far (/var/cache/urpmi/rpms). Uhm... --noclean gets rid of that problem (losing everything you've dlded so far). But I do agree on the resume thing...when I have to cut urpmi for some reason and continue later, I have to do it twice, because I have to see what package isn't fully dlded (it errors out on install), delete and dld again. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] Re: URPMI in the spotlight, was: question on ftp sites
Yeah, but what about the gui version?? In the dialog box it should pop up and ask me. Software Manager/rpmdrake/whatever should have the full functionality of URPMI IMHO. AFAIK, it does not as of now. Cheers Jason Vox wrote: This time Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: I think having URPMI have a resume capability would rock. AFAIK, it doesn't do that now. I am on dialup and when I lose my conn. URPMI fails and I actually have to kill the process to get it to stop. I also lose whatever has been downloaded so far (/var/cache/urpmi/rpms). Uhm... --noclean gets rid of that problem (losing everything you've dlded so far). But I do agree on the resume thing...when I have to cut urpmi for some reason and continue later, I have to do it twice, because I have to see what package isn't fully dlded (it errors out on install), delete and dld again. Vox
Re: [Cooker] Re: URPMI in the spotlight, was: question on ftp sites
This time Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Yeah, but what about the gui version?? In the dialog box it should pop up and ask me. Software Manager/rpmdrake/whatever should have the full functionality of URPMI IMHO. AFAIK, it does not as of now. Uhm...that I don't know...I don't use GUI admin tools of any kind...I'm way too sick of errors that happen without me being able to see them happening...if I wanted that, I'd still be using windows :) Vox PS: And no, that doesn't mean I disagree with you...only that I have no clue if it has the same functionality or not. -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] Re: URPMI in the spotlight, was: question on ftp sites
I am similar but I am in that unenviable in between stage of still learning effective CLI use. But I am getting there. I try to imagine myself as a newbie though when discussing these issues since a lot of Mandrake users are new to Linux. If it works from the CLI, it's always good to try and emulate that fuctionality in the GUI tools if possible IMHO. Regards, Jason Vox wrote: This time Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Yeah, but what about the gui version?? In the dialog box it should pop up and ask me. Software Manager/rpmdrake/whatever should have the full functionality of URPMI IMHO. AFAIK, it does not as of now. Uhm...that I don't know...I don't use GUI admin tools of any kind...I'm way too sick of errors that happen without me being able to see them happening...if I wanted that, I'd still be using windows :) Vox PS: And no, that doesn't mean I disagree with you...only that I have no clue if it has the same functionality or not.
