On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 19:06, James Sparenberg wrote: > 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
Thought of one more... if I do a urpmi xxx --fuzzy and there is only one match... instead of automatically grabbing it, could it instead say something like..."I found only one mathc xxx.1mdk.rpm" do you want to install this now? James > > > > > > >
