On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:00, Fran�ois Pons wrote: > Le lun 10/03/2003 � 14:22, Buchan Milne a �crit : > > > 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. > > > 2)Adding entries to /etc/urpmi/skip.list > > I had a bad experience when testing the above script the first time, > > since I had samba-server-ldap running in production on a server, and > > urpmi --auto-select decided the samba-server-2.2.7-2mdk from updates > > should replace samba-server-ldap-2.2.7a-3mdk running on the server ... > > resulting in about 2 minutes of downtime wrt. samba while I scp'ed > > ldap-enabled RPMS to it etc). > > You may want to use --bug $LOG/`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'` to the urpmi > command line, so that you have a per session based update log (so that > if something fail, you have a bug report to send me too). > > Just create a compressed archive maybe on the fly to avoid keeping too > much place if necessary ? > > Fran�ois.
A simple idea here... perhaps not so simple to implement. But some kind of indication of how much of a urpmi.update is done would be nice ... Not a percentage per se but something like a downloading column that says 23/30 meaning this is rpm #23 out of 30 you are going to get. Oh and I'm speaking of the command line here not the gui. James >
