Re: Does anyone else think yumex is broken?

2010-01-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:44:42 + n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: Recently I've found Yumex to be unreliable, getting stuck when trying to do updates. Yet the updates can be made using yum from the command line. Also it seems to take far too long to update the status of RPMs installed and

Re: Does anyone else think yumex is broken?

2010-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:03:07AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:44:42 + n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: Recently I've found Yumex to be unreliable, getting stuck when trying to do updates. Yet the updates can be made using yum from the command line. Also it seems to

Re: Does anyone else think yumex is broken?

2010-01-07 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:16:11PM +, Alan Cox wrote: the guts of package management. However, PackageKit is neither unreliable nor barely communicating in my experience, and I use it most of the time in Fedora. Yum also has bits that allow it to communicate with PackageKit when run

Re: Does anyone else think yumex is broken?

2010-01-07 Thread Alan Cox
the guts of package management. However, PackageKit is neither unreliable nor barely communicating in my experience, and I use it most of the time in Fedora. Yum also has bits that allow it to communicate with PackageKit when run on the command line. This system works quite well. This one

Re: Does anyone else think yumex is broken?

2010-01-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 01/07/2010 04:08 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: The yum command line tool is great for anyone who wants to see more of the guts of package management. However, PackageKit is neither unreliable nor barely communicating in my experience, and I use it most of the time in Fedora. Well, ... * ...