Martin Schlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 18 March 2006 10:45, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> with Beta 8, I can't add the factory repository. I've tried rug and YaST >> >> This is not yet a known bug - file it with component "libzypp", >> >> Andreas > > I've added Factory (mirrors.kernel.org) to yast installation sources seemed > to > work fine - installed a couple of packages from it with YaST sw. Though I was > having problems installing with rug but I'll look into that a bit further > before deeming it a bug. > > Perhaps this is not the place to make wishes/feature requests - but I was > wondering if it were possible to have a popup message box - perhaps even with > a progress bar - when downloading repodata..
Makes sense, please file an enhancement for YaST - not sure whether it will be done in time for 10.1 but for 10.2 this should go in. > In my experience noobs dont understand that package info for thousands of > packages is not downloaded in a split second on a 128 kbit connection ;) > > A lot of times people simply think that YaST has frozen - when it is actually > downloading or refreshing repodata. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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