On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:56, Gene C. wrote: > I am not sure which mailing list this belongs on but am trying this one first. > If it more appropriate to put it on fedora-devel-list, then I will report it > there (I just do not like cross posting). > > Some of this topic came up on fedora-list in an email by > Mike Chambers <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> which had the subject "Up2date graphical > RFE". > > If appropriate, I will file a bugzilla RFE report on this. > > Proposal: merge redhat-config-packages and up2date into a single package. > > This essentially means dropping the redhat-config-packages and enhancing with > additional functionality. > > For the most part, a lot is the needed up2date functionality is already there > ... it just needs to be made to work. The --show-package-dialog can produce > a gui listing of available packages. Up2date already handles source > repositories in a clean way and can access via rhn, yum, apt, as well as > directories (I wonder if those can be nfs mounts ... I will have to try > that). > > I believe the real questions are: > > 1. Does up2date need the ability to "shuffle" cdroms on a single drive such as > redhat-config-packages can do? [IMHO, maybe] > > 2. Does up2date need a "group" capability (similar to redhat-config-packages > and anaconda)? [IMHO, no] In my opinion, up2date and redhat-config-packages should merge. Or at the very least, up2date needs to be a little update wizard that redhat-config-packages can call. -Brent > > There are a few things I have though of that need to be made to work: > > 1. Do not require pending updates to make --show-package-dialog [this should > be renamed to something that makes more sense]. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73715 > > 2. Make --channel=<...> application to more options. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109678 > Right now if you do --showall, you get all packages in all channels. > > 3. Make --show-package-dialog a gui checkbox option. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109723 > > 4. Be able to specify repositories in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources which are NOT > selected by default. [to be bugzilla'ed as RFE] > > I believe that Red Hat will need to keep up2date with RHN support for RHEL. > However, I think that redhat-config-packages can go. > > Comments??