Up2date graphical RFE
Gene C.
czar at czarc.net
Tue Nov 11 16:30:25 UTC 2003
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:09, Mike Chambers wrote:
> In synaptic, your able to see/view packages, as part of the repository
> that your connecting to, that are not installed on your system. You may
> then select those and add them.
>
> On up2date, you can only update packages already installed, but no way
> to view what you don't have already.
>
> I know add/remove packages allows you to do this, but only for CD of the
> core distro? Or can it do what I am referring to already?
>
> And if not, any chance it's been thought over to add this functionality
> to up2date GUI?
OK, I believe some of the functionality is there now!
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73715
The above bug report points out that --show-package-dialog does not work
properly. Try installing an "old" package (I used redhat-config-packages
from the test3 since I consider it more or less useless as it is). Then
invoke up2date from the command line and specify --show-package-dialog
After the screen showing the pending update, you will then get a screen
showing the other packages available.
Part of the problem of not showing this dialog if no updates are pending is
the sys.exit(0) at line 1555 of /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py will
kick out if there are no updates. I have tried commenting line 1555 out (do
at your own risk) and, although the display is not "clean", it now somewhat
works and displays uninstalled packages for the channels chosen.
I have also submitted:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109723
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109678
Mike, I have been think on this and I really believe that
redhat-config-packages and up2date should be merged.
Most of the needed functionality is already in up2date.
--
Gene
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