Unacceptable up2date functionality

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Wed Oct 22 20:28:08 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 22 October 2003 15:20, Douglas Stewart wrote:
> Due to Rawhide's absence since yesterday, I've noticed that up2date is
> COMPLETELY user-unfriendly when it can't reach a yum repo.  Instead of
> printing any error messages to the tune of "I can't reach that repo.
> Sorry!", it simply spits cryptic Python errors to the terminal window
> and hangs the progress window, while moving the main window to "Packages
> to be skipped".
>
> I would suggest that, in such cases, up2date offer up something akin to
> the dialog the user encounters when no updates are needed (i.e., " Can't
> reach any of the listed repositories.  Please check your network
> settings and try again later".)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107732

-- 
Gene





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