On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 - Denis HAVLIK, you wrote:
| Hi, folks
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| It feels strange when I have to reply to my own message but... I thought
| that "upgrade" is an extremely important topic, yet no one wants to
| discuss it. Does it mean that you are not interested (so we should stop
| worying about upgrade) or what? I repeat:
|
| :~>What do you expect from upgrade?
|
| cu
| Denis
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For the upgrade option in the installer, I would like to see a listing of
installed packages which already exist on my system, and any available updated
packages perhaps in a second column. Using the two column concept would
also allow for display of packages not currently installed on the system,
(simply show an empty field where the installed package would normally be
displayed). The user then could click on a package line to get better
information on the package update in a pop-up window, something like what we see
in kpackage or rpmdrake.
This obviously would logically fit best in the "expert" install / update
procedure.
For an update utility as a part of the distribution, a windowed application
perhaps as an extension of rpmdrake would work for me. Add an "update"
command line switch which could be entered in the command dialog in most any
desk top "launcher" configuration window (rpmdrake -update) which would modify
the behavior of rpmdrake such that it search for and display update packages
from the web mirror of the user's choice. This information could be entered
and saved in the preferences dialogue, so the user will not have to go through
the process of "wait while I download the list of update sites" each time the
updater is started. Otherwise the extension could function much like the
existing MandrakeUpdate utility does ... just an idea.
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