On Wednesday 27 November 2002 04:17, daniel beck wrote:
>  rpmdrake and urpmi is really a nice add value. Its
> allmost the main raison, why I use mandrake . There
> are a few things, I thing, that could be nice to
> implement
>
> - something like : silence donwload and install. A lot
> of people use cooker, I remember a poll on mandrake
> forum where something like 40 % from the people use
> cooker. So, everytime, I update my system, but it
> takes all memory and brandwith  , and I can do nothing
> else :-/ . Could also be  nice  to update the system
> with a deamon. Was just a little idea
>
> - the pop pups from rpmdrake are after all not *so*
> bad, and they are in fact easy to understand. but,
> then downloading softare from plf, there are allways
> lots of poppups, and I must stay in front of the
> monitor, and allway click : yes, I want to install (I
> know, its because I didn't downloaded the key...). But
> would be nice to have a : " yes for all" button.
>
> - then I update software from cooker, and  one package
> failed, I have to start all again. Ok, its nice that
> the package are stored in /var/cache, but it would be
> even nicer if, then i download 2 softare A and B, and
> the download from software A fails, Software B has
> nothing to do with A (no dependencies), that urpmi
> installs Software A
>
> - I want to be able to acces with urpmi mirrors, which
> are protected with username/passwort (or does that
> already work?)

Nice, featurelist above. 

I miss a small feature too:
If I'd like to install a rpm from say:
http://testserver.com/path/to/smart-mandrake-stuff/filename.mdk.rpm

I can do this:
rpm -ivh http://testserver.com/path/to/smart-mandrake-stuff/filename.mdk.rpm
And rpm will download it and install it, but if it has some dependencises it 
wil fail and i'll have to do this:
wget http://testserver.com/path/to/smart-mandrake-stuff/filename.mdk.rpm
urpmi ./filename.mdk.rpm

The smart soloution would be to be able to do this:
urpmi http://testserver.com/path/to/smart-mandrake-stuff/filename.mdk.rpm

And it would install the file solving the dependencies as usual.

thanks.

-- 
Jesper Krogh, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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