Re: status of up2date and rhn-applet

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > 3. Repository Handling from UI (i liked the up2date behaviour to
> > selectively enable and disable repos)
> 
> I'm not against this (the glade file actually has the button to bring up
> such a dialog, it's just not currently enabled), but I'm mostly curious
> what the use case is for it.  Why would you not want to get the
> available updates for all configured repositories?  I can see wanting to
> configure what repositories you use for getting software when installing
> new stuff, but what's the use case for doing it while updating?

Where I see something like this being useful is when repositories
aren't in sync yet - for example, you just installed FC5, and
your favorite repo of add-on software isn't built for FC5 yet.

Ergo, you want to temporarily disable that repo.

Bill

-- 
fedora-devel-list mailing list
fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux