up2date still quite unusable [test 3 x86_64]

Peter Boy pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Sun Apr 25 23:27:58 UTC 2004


Unfortunately, up2date is still very hard to use. The problems are 
quite the same since Fedora Core 1  Test 1:

-  program crashes in various situation, no pattern recognizable
-  feedback for the user is very sparse (esp. during the step 
   "testing package set / solving RPM inter-dep". You never know
   weather it is still working of crashed already
-  quite sensitive to bandwith problems / overloaded servers
-  quite unusable for doing high volume updates in one step

just to name a few. Those are the days of a robust and fairly usable
program for access of Red Hat Network.

Given the fact that these are long lasting problems, fixing them is
obviously a hard task. Wouldn't it be better and more efficient to
discard up2date for Fedora and dedicate it to the Enterprise line and
Red Hat Network? (where it used to serve very well) and to develop a
graphical front end for yum, given the fact that yum is much more
robust. And we would need (and maintain) only one config file.


Peter





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