On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:15 -0700, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote: > > fedora-easy-karma makes it very, very easy. Have you tried it? You just > > run it, at a console, and it detects all the packages you have installed > > from updates-testing, gives you the description of each, and asks you to > > provide feedback for each (or skip). It's really a one-stop. It's > > described in the proven tester documentation, but really all you need to > > know is 'yum install fedora-easy-karma', 'fedora-easy-karma'. It has a > > --critpath-only parameter to show only critpath updates, if you're in a > > hurry and just want to provide feedback on the most important updates. > > Well I knew of fedora-easy-karma because of that thread, however I > didn't know it did everything I wanted. I thought it allowed you to > easily add karma to an update you've installed... Again, even though > fedora-easy-karma can give me a list of packages to install and test, > this requires me to think 'hey should I run fedora-easy-karma' to see if > any packages I'm interested in are available for testing?.. As opposed > to the case where updates are made available via PK and I just get > notified they are there. So if I can create a list of packages I'm > interested in testing, or a list of packages to exclude. And it checks > like PK does and informs me when packages need testing, great. Otherwise > as lame as it is, I'll rarely think 'I should see if something needs > testing'. Unless something I *need* needs testing and I know because > I've filed the bug or am otherwise cc'd on it. f-e-k doesn't install updates, it works with what's already installed. the intended workflow is that you have updates-testing enabled and just install everything that becomes available through it (so just run regular updates with it enabled); then you run f-e-k regularly and it figures out which of the currently installed packages come from updates-testing and hence require karma, and asks you to provide karma for each one in turn. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
