Re: [PATCH setup] Query the user if a corrupt local file is found

2018-01-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/5/2018 10:00 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 16/12/2017 18:37, Ken Brown wrote: If a corrupt file is found in one of the selected mirror site directories, offer to delete it instead of making this a fatal error. Do this only on the first call to check_for cached().  If the corrupt file is still

Re: setup libsolv UI: Silently install dependencies?

2018-01-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 1/5/2018 10:48 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 24/12/2017 23:23, Ken Brown wrote: Currently the libsolv version of setup silently installs added dependencies.  The user gets a chance to review them first only if libsolv finds problems and has to display the prerequisite page. I'm not sure if

Re: setup libsolv UI: Silently install dependencies?

2018-01-05 Thread Jon Turney
On 24/12/2017 23:23, Ken Brown wrote: Currently the libsolv version of setup silently installs added dependencies.  The user gets a chance to review them first only if libsolv finds problems and has to display the prerequisite page. I'm not sure if this was a deliberate design decision,

Re: [PATCH setup] Query the user if a corrupt local file is found

2018-01-05 Thread Jon Turney
On 16/12/2017 18:37, Ken Brown wrote: If a corrupt file is found in one of the selected mirror site directories, offer to delete it instead of making this a fatal error. Do this only on the first call to check_for cached(). If the corrupt file is still there on the second call, then the

Re: setup libsolv: getting rid of ".any"

2018-01-05 Thread Jon Turney
On 13/12/2017 00:04, Ken Brown wrote: I've been trying to think of a way to get rid of the suffix ".any" that gets appended to package names.  I think users will be confused by this when they see it in log files and, more importantly, in problem reports.  The only thing I can come up with is

Re: [PATCH setup] Make sure that fatal error messages are visible

2018-01-05 Thread Jon Turney
On 28/12/2017 01:38, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/21/2017 5:55 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/20/2017 12:09 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/20/2017 11:19 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 19/12/2017 00:53, Ken Brown wrote: The message box produced by TOPLEVEL_CATCH could be hidden by whatever window was previously