Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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